"Toto, I've a feeling we're not in Kansas Anymore"
No, you are not! So let's gear up for Worldview Month
In worldview stories, our need for self-actualization allows us to identify with the protagonist. We respond to conflict on the ignorance-wisdom spectrum with the feeling of satisfaction when the luminary expresses their gifts and achieves cognitive growth and a worldview shift or a feeling of pity when the luminary fails to achieve cognitive growth and degenerates instead.
Shawn Coyne, The Four Core Framework
HEROINE: It's almost time for our favorite show! Are you excited George?
GEORGE (THE DOG) BARKS
Good boy!
PHONE RINGS
Oh! Who is that?
Hello...Oh, hi Roger. What? No.... No, I don't want to go out. What do you mean you're outside?
DING DONG! DOG SCRAMBLING AND BARKING.
Rodger! No. I'm not answering the door.
KNOCKING ON DOOR
And I'm not going out. No. I'm staying in. What? Save the world? Okay, you do that then. Have a good time.
GEORGE BARKING.
George! Stop that, what are you doing? You already went out for your walk. What Rodger? What do you mean by my special gift? What special gift? George! Rodger! Argh!
No! I don't want to go.
Oh my, those reluctant protagonists. So much potential brewing under the surface but getting them off the couch and out the door for an adventure will require a whole worldview shift, won't it? So enemies and allies, mentors and guardians, you've got your work cut out for you.
This month on The Write Fix Podcast we explore the Worldview Genre. Join us every Friday for a new series of prompts and let's make the world a better place together, why don't we?