e is that that specificity allows for a much more guided template and makes writing a words-on-paper first draft much easier. A Hero's Journey Plot also allows you to easily roll out a words-on-paper first draft from many angles. For example, the same story can be written from the perspective of an unwilling Hero, the perspective of a willing Hero, where the Hero increases in status (Rags to Riches) or where the Hero decreases in status (Tragedy).

Our Advanced Worksheets are elicitations of vari

[From our deconstruction of hundreds of Hollywood blockbusters and sitcoms (see below for Home Page) and our isolation and identification of more than 188 stages of the Hero's Journey that you need to know about...]

The Hero's Journey is the template upon which the vast majority of successful stories and Hollywood blockbusters are based upon. In fact, ALL of the Hollywood movies we have deconstructed are based on this template.

Understanding this template is a priority for story or screenwriters.

The Hero's Journey:

a) Attempts to tap into unconscious expectations the audience has regarding what a story is and how it should be told.

b) Gives the writer more structural elements than simply three or four acts, plot points, mid point and so on.

c) Interpreted metaphorically, laterally and symbolically, allows an infinite number of varied stories to be created.

and more...

What are Hero's Journey Plots?

From our deconstruction of hundreds of successful Hollywood blockbusters and stories and our knowledge as writers, our thesis can be reduced to the following:

a) The essence of story is transformation.

b) The process of that transformation, at the root level, is the Hero's Journey.

Moving on:

a) There are a finite number of drivers that push (or pull) the transformation forward. For example, sometimes the driver is an Antagonism, sometimes it is the urge for a New Self etc.

b) There are a finite number of transformations. For example, Rags to Riches, New Self, Tragedy etc.

Each combination of the above produces its own variable Hero's Journey Plot. For example, if the Hero is willing, there tend to be a greater number of Obstacles and Interdictions, whereas if the Hero is unwilling, there tend to be a greater number of Pushes or Pulls forward.

A Hero's Journey Plot is a much more specific elicitation of the Hero's Journey (and consequently cannot be applied as broadly). The advantage is that that specificity allows for a much more guided template and makes writing a words-on-paper first draft much easier. A Hero's Journey Plot also allows you to easily roll out a words-on-paper first draft from many angles. For example, the same story can be written from the perspective of an unwilling Hero, the perspective of a willing Hero, where the Hero increases in status (Rags to Riches) or where the Hero decreases in status (Tragedy).

Our Advanced Worksheets are elicitations of vario

enwriters.

The Hero's Journey:

a) Attempts to tap into unconscious expectations the audience has regarding what a story is and how it should be told.

b) Gives the writer more structural elements than simply three or four acts, plot points, mid point and so on.

c) Interpreted metaphorically, laterally and symbolically, allows an infinite number of varied stories to be created.

and more...

What are Hero's Journey Plots?

From our deconstruction of hundreds of successful Hollywood blockbusters and stories and our knowledge as writers, our thesis can be reduced to the following:

a) The essence of story is transformation.

b) The process of that transformation, at the root level, is the Hero's Journey.

Moving on:

a) There are a finite number of drivers that push (or pull) the transformation forward. For example, sometimes the driver is an Antagonism, sometimes it is the urge for a New Self etc.

b) There are a finite number of transformations. For example, Rags to Riches, New Self, Tragedy etc.

Each combination of the above produces its own variable Hero's Journey Plot. For example, if the Hero is willing, there tend to be a greater number of Obstacles and Interdictions, whereas if the Hero is unwilling, there tend to be a greater number of Pushes or Pulls forward.

A Hero's Journey Plot is a much more specific elicitation of the Hero's Journey (and consequently cannot be applied as broadly). The advantage is that that specificity allows for a much more guided template and makes writing a words-on-paper first draft much easier. A Hero's Journey Plot also allows you to easily roll out a words-on-paper first draft from many angles. For example, the same story can be written from the perspective of an unwilling Hero, the perspective of a willing Hero, where the Hero increases in status (Rags to Riches) or where the Hero decreases in status (Tragedy).

Our Advanced Worksheets are elicitations of vari

f hundreds of successful Hollywood blockbusters and stories and our knowledge as writers, our thesis can be reduced to the following:

a) The essence of story is transformation.

b) The process of that transformation, at the root level, is the Hero's Journey.

Moving on:

a) There are a finite number of drivers that push (or pull) the transformation forward. For example, sometimes the driver is an Antagonism, sometimes it is the urge for a New Self etc.

b) There are a finite number of transformations. For example, Rags to Riches, New Self, Tragedy etc.

Each combination of the above produces its own variable Hero's Journey Plot. For example, if the Hero is willing, there tend to be a greater number of Obstacles and Interdictions, whereas if the Hero is unwilling, there tend to be a greater number of Pushes or Pulls forward.

A Hero's Journey Plot is a much more specific elicitation of the Hero's Journey (and consequently cannot be applied as broadly). The advantage is that that specificity allows for a much more guided template and makes writing a words-on-paper first draft much easier. A Hero's Journey Plot also allows you to easily roll out a words-on-paper first draft from many angles. For example, the same story can be written from the perspective of an unwilling Hero, the perspective of a willing Hero, where the Hero increases in status (Rags to Riches) or where the Hero decreases in status (Tragedy).

Our Advanced Worksheets are elicitations of vari

umber of transformations. For example, Rags to Riches, New Self, Tragedy etc.

Each combination of the above produces its own variable Hero's Journey Plot. For example, if the Hero is willing, there tend to be a greater number of Obstacles and Interdictions, whereas if the Hero is unwilling, there tend to be a greater number of Pushes or Pulls forward.

A Hero's Journey Plot is a much more specific elicitation of the Hero's Journey (and consequently cannot be applied as broadly). The advantage is that that specificity allows for a much more guided template and makes writing a words-on-paper first draft much easier. A Hero's Journey Plot also allows you to easily roll out a words-on-paper first draft from many angles. For example, the same story can be written from the perspective of an unwilling Hero, the perspective of a willing Hero, where the Hero increases in status (Rags to Riches) or where the Hero decreases in status (Tragedy).

Our Advanced Worksheets are elicitations of vari

e is that that specificity allows for a much more guided template and makes writing a words-on-paper first draft much easier. A Hero's Journey Plot also allows you to easily roll out a words-on-paper first draft from many angles. For example, the same story can be written from the perspective of an unwilling Hero, the perspective of a willing Hero, where the Hero increases in status (Rags to Riches) or where the Hero decreases in status (Tragedy).

Our Advanced Worksheets are elicitations of various Hero's Journey Plots. They are pragmatic worksheets with an arrangement of incidents / sequence of events that each follow plausibly from the other. They are like chalk outlines that will allow you to extrapolate ideas into full blown stories.