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=== Hero’s Journey === Sources: * Reedsy overview: [https://blog.reedsy.com/guide/story-structure/ Reedsy] * TV Tropes overview: [https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TheHerosJourney TV Tropes] The Hero’s Journey, inspired by Joseph Campbell’s monomyth, focuses on crossing from ordinary world into special world, undergoing trials, gaining boon/knowledge, and returning changed. Common beats: * Ordinary World * Call to Adventure * Refusal of the Call * Meeting the Mentor * Crossing the Threshold * Tests, Allies, Enemies * Approach to the Inmost Cave * Ordeal * Reward * Road Back * Resurrection * Return with the Elixir Revision use: * Best for adventure, fantasy, mythic, quest, initiation, and transformation stories. * Check whether the “special world” genuinely tests the protagonist’s old identity. * Check whether mentor/help does not solve the climax for the protagonist. * Check whether the return changes the ordinary world or the protagonist’s place in it. Pitfall: not every story needs mythic terminology. Domestic, literary, mystery, romance, and ensemble stories may need other maps.
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