Thirteen Challenges
Credits
  • Bruce Erickson
writer's journey map
  The Dark Wood
A Dark Wood
title: The Birch Grove
by: ©harissa Borroff
License:
http://creativecommons.org/
licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/
The Geyser of Good Hope
spouting geyser
Geyser @ Yellowstone; Bruce Erickson
  The Dunes of Discovery
dunes
title: Sand Dunes on Kangaroo Island
by: xtreme visuals
License:
http://creativecommons.org/
licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/
McLuhan's Hole
Burke, James. Connections. Boston: Little, Brown, & Company, 1978. 277.
  Hypatia's Keep
library
The Church of Saint Joseph of Montreal, Montreal; Bruce Erickson
The Cliffs of Guidance
cliffs
title: Temple of Sinawava
by: modean987
License:
http://creativecommons.org/
licenses/by-nc-nd/2.0/
  The Checkered Plain
checkered fields

Derived from:
Agricultural Research Service, USDA, image www.ars.usda.gov/.../photos
/dec96/k7510-2i.jpg

The Bridge of Execution
incomplete bridge

Tyne Bridge Construction 1928;
http://website.lineone.net/
~d.ord/Bridges.htm
; January 20, 2007

  The Delta of Learning
delta

Niger Delta; NASA

from: http://www.worldwildlife.org/

The Journey's End
a never-ending journey Bruce Erickson
  The Writer's Stage
writer's stage symbol

Bruce Erickson

The Refiner's Fire
dante's purifying flames
Blake, William. Dante at the Moment of Entering the Fire. Klonsky, Milton. Blake's Dante: The Complete Illustrations of the Divine Comedy. New York: Harmony, 1980. 112.
  The Plain of Perspective
not-so-big boulder Monument Valley, AZ: 1996; Bruce Erickson
The Plain of Perspective
big boulder
Monument Valley, AZ: 1996; Bruce Erickson
  cover art: The Point Nilsson, Harry. The Point. New York: BMG Music, 1989. - Burke, James. The Day the Universe Changed. Boston: Little, Brown, & Company, 1985. 120.
  dante in the dark wood
Blake, William. Dante Running from the Three Beasts . Klonsky, Milton. Blake's Dante: The Complete Illustrations of the Divine Comedy. New York: Harmony, 1980. 25.
role-play symbol Role-play Symbol; Bruce Erickson
  sacajawea Staub, Leslie. Sacajewea. New Orleans, LA: Lemeiux Galleries. January 21, 2004. www.lemieuxgalleries.com/ lg_staub_Sacajewea.html cover art: Undaunted Courage Dust cover; Ambrose, Stephen E. Undaunted Courage: Meriweather Lewis, Thomas Jefferson, and the Opening of the American West. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1996.
 
target audience triangle
Target Audience Triangle;
Bruce Erickson
   
  • "Midway through the journey of our life / I woke to find myself in a dark wood"—Dante Pilgrim
  • "Only Nixon could go to China."—Mr. Spock
  • "But [. . .]. No time for that either . Off you go!"
  • "Finally, the two travelers reached . . . ."