Workshop: Room 118, 9:00-10:30. The Hero Cycle, represented in Joseph Campbell’s The Hero With A Thousand Faces, catalogues the story-components of the hero’s adventure. It registers the hero’s leaving his or her ordinary life, documents his or her adventures which both challenge and teach, and culminates his or her return to the community with new power and knowledge. The psychological imperatives that drive the hero to courage and to growth allow for deeply developed characters that readers relate to. And the hero’s adventures will manifest stories with compelling character-driven plots.