The demon at the gate that say's "whatever!"

Vogler dedicates three and a half pages to his next archetype;

The Threshold Guardian

These are characters or forces at play that try to deter the hero from crossing the first threshold that propels them into the adventure of the story. For every movie about dancers stepping up in 3D, these are the characters that tell Billy & Honey that their dreams are foolish and impractical, irresponsible even.

In every movie that you've ever seen about someone who has a dream these are the characters who are basically pricks, at least for a while, until they usually realise that there kids dream was worthwhile after all, because it made them successful, rich and probably got them laid.

These characters don't have to be assholes, they can be acting out of concern or good common sense. They can be your parents that time they tried to prevent you travelling overseas on your own. But you went anyway, didn't you tiger?

Ugh, you know what, i'm bored writing this, I can't imagine how bored you must be reading it.

I think i'm just going to try and read through the rest of his archetype summaries for myself, maybe do a recap at the end.

My threshold guardian at the moment is the voice inside my head that's telling me i'm wasting my time because it will take me forever to find something I really want to write and then it will take me an eternity to be good enough to write it.

I need to defeat him to push on.