The Hero’s journey is a widespread form of story structure derived from mythologist Joseph Campell’ s ‘Monomyth’ from his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces, which was originally published in 1949 There are twelve steps, and as you go… Read More ›
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Creating an Outline with Index Cards
All you need to create your outline are 60 index cards, a pen or a marker of some sort and a large space in which to spread out the cards. This method utilises the Three Act Structure which is a useful structural… Read More ›
The Three Act Structure
I’ve written before about story structure and about how I structure my own stories, but I thought that I would talk a little bit about another useful (if a bit more complicated) way of structuring your story elements, the Three Act Structure…. Read More ›
Working with an Outline
I had always been one of those people who could pick up a pad of paper and a pencil and start writing, going with the flow of whatever happened to appear on the page. The problem was that I would… Read More ›
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