 Hi guys, this is Marc Wachowicz again speaking to you from Berlin. Today I want to show you some books which may help you to dive a little bit deeper into storytelling. The first one is Illuminating Shadows by Joffrey Hill. This book is a little bit older, it's about 25 years or so, but so is The Hero's Journey by Christopher Vogler. This is also about the mythic power of film as you can see here and it's a great addition to the common Hero's Journey books you will find. It doesn't delve so much on the paradigm ground like Vogler and Campbell, but helps you to get a better impression of what is mythic storytelling at all. To be honest, the common books about The Hero's Journey will more tell you how to tell but not so much give you a feeling about mythic storytelling, to tell your stories in symbols and metaphors in an allegorical way. Books like these will help you a little bit more to understand how myths are told in the first place. Okay, you can always read actual really myths so maybe you should do that but if you don't want to and you're not shy of having some examples from maybe the 80s or the early 90s then you may check out this book. The next two books will help you to dig very deep into why we tell stories. Okay the first one is more of an overview and it's called The Storytelling Animal by Jonathan Gottschall. If you want to understand why we tell stories or why we can turn away from stories, why people are drawn to stories then this book will give you some first ideas why we tell stories and obviously the storytelling animal is we the humans is us. So we are born to tell stories and born to appreciate stories. If you're interested in why we tell stories and how they affect us, how we need them to live then check this one out. But this is just an overview for those of you who want to get some quick ideas and information about the subject. The more scientific book on this matter is on the origins of stories by Brian Boyd and it's not by chance that its title reflects the Darwin book on the origin of man because this book takes a very evolutionary road to explain why we tell stories. It goes very very deep to of course the origins of stories. For me this is an eye opener. Of all the paradigms we know about storytelling like Sitfield or Heroes' Journey or what else may come, they don't help you to explore your own patterns, your own paradigms of storytelling. My recommendation for you is to learn more about why we tell stories. If you have an idea why people are drawn to stories then you can form your own stories into your own paradigms, your own words, your own patterns of meaning and then those stories may become individual not only by content but in form too. Maybe you develop a known kind of the stories you want to tell. So guys check this out if you don't shy away from complex scientific thinking about storytelling. The last one you can find on the internet you can buy it as book but it's also free for download and this is the Dramatica Theory of Story. I will show it here to you. This theory was developed in the early 90s and made quite an impact on Hollywood so they say it's kind of the holy grail of story paradigms because it wants to it wants to to unify all story theories and wants to unify all major elements of storytelling like character like theme like genre and so on. Basically the Dramatica Theory of Story says that our stories are constructed like the problem-solving process of the human mind and that's why we can't turn away from stories because stories cannot be in another way than how we are thinking. The Dramatica Theory of Story is very very complex and maybe you will be very very frustrated in the first minutes or hours when you read it but give it a try even if you just read some first pages and you will get some very good ideas about storytelling. There's a computer program which helps you to develop stories with the Dramatica Theory but I would say first you look into the theory itself and if you're if you're not shattered by the complexity of this theory then you may go on. I know guys these were very heavy books I recommend to you and who knows maybe they will help you on your stories or on your thinking about stories. So bye bye from Berlin, Saint-Marc and all the best for you and your stories.