{"id":327,"date":"2013-01-16T00:45:03","date_gmt":"2013-01-16T00:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/geraldhornsby.wordpress.com\/?p=327"},"modified":"2013-01-16T00:45:03","modified_gmt":"2013-01-16T00:45:03","slug":"monomyth-and-story-structure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/2013\/01\/16\/monomyth-and-story-structure\/","title":{"rendered":"Monomyth and story structure"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not a fan of prescriptive writing. The sort of stuff where you learn \u2018how\u2019 to write a proper story, where you learn about protagonists, antagonists, story arc, blah blah blah. I\u2019ve read a lot of novels in my writing genre (crime \/ horror \/ dark \/ dystopian fiction), and I think I\u2019ve absorbed story structure into my head. My characters have challenges and conflict.<\/p>\n<p>But I enjoy reading about writing, and I particularly enjoy listening to the Writing Excuses podcast. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writingexcuses.com\/\">http:\/\/www.writingexcuses.com\/<\/a> You can subscribe via iTunes.<\/p>\n<p>This week, they were talking about \u201cHero\u2019s Journey\u201d <a href=\"http:\/\/www.writingexcuses.com\/2013\/01\/13\/writing-excuses-8-2-heros-journey\/\">http:\/\/www.writingexcuses.com\/2013\/01\/13\/writing-excuses-8-2-heros-journey\/<\/a> and there\u2019s a lot of interesting stuff in there. They also link the theory to popular stories and films, like Harry Potter, Star Wars, and the Lord of the Rings story. Examples like that really bring home the reasoning behind the theories.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve searched some of the stuff they talk about, and include links below.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m not saying (and they\u2019re not saying) that your stories have to follow these prescriptive plans, but it\u2019s worth reading about the theories to see if they might be useful to you.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monomyth\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Monomyth<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/channel101.wikia.com\/wiki\/Story_Structure_101:_Super_Basic_Shit\">http:\/\/channel101.wikia.com\/wiki\/Story_Structure_101:_Super_Basic_Shit<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TheHollywoodFormula\">http:\/\/tvtropes.org\/pmwiki\/pmwiki.php\/Main\/TheHollywoodFormula<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/ywp.scriptfrenzy.org\/files\/scriptfrenzy-ywp\/sf_ywp_08_formula_hs.pdf\">http:\/\/ywp.scriptfrenzy.org\/files\/scriptfrenzy-ywp\/sf_ywp_08_formula_hs.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.karenwoodward.org\/2012\/10\/orson-scott-card-mice-quotient-how-to.html\">http:\/\/blog.karenwoodward.org\/2012\/10\/orson-scott-card-mice-quotient-how-to.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wendy-wheeler.com\/7point.html\">http:\/\/www.wendy-wheeler.com\/7point.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019m not a fan of prescriptive writing. The sort of stuff where you learn \u2018how\u2019 to write a proper story, where you learn about protagonists, antagonists, story arc, blah blah blah. I\u2019ve read a lot of novels in my writing genre (crime \/ horror \/ dark \/ dystopian fiction), and I think I\u2019ve absorbed story [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-327","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-writing-on-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5y3CH-5h","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=327"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/327\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=327"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=327"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gerald-hornsby.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=327"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}