John Bucher on Why We Need to Embrace Conflict in Our Creative Work

Are you guilty of doing everything in your power to avoid pain and conflict? It’s something we all do. But as storytellers, we know that deep down that it’s actually conflict that makes a character’s journey interesting. So why don’t we embrace the same idea in the story that we’re each living out? In this week’s conversation we talk about that idea, and a whole lot more…

John Bucher is a mythologist, award-winning writer, and futurist. His books include The Inside Out Story, Master of the Cinematic Universe, Story by the Numbers, and Storytelling for Virtual Reality. That explains why he is consistently tapped by companies like HBO to develop spiritually-themed content for their digital presence, and has served as a writer and consultant for numerous film, television, and VR projects. He’s also a film instructor and it’s clear from this conversation that he loves to talk about storytelling.