Thread: How to Structure A Story: The Eight-Point Arc
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Old 05-29-2013, 08:59 PM   #11
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Originally Posted by Nancy Fulda View Post
The link strikes me as a condensed and nicely modernized version of Campbell's Monomyth (a.k.a The Hero's Journey). Which is good, because the Hero's Journey was written primarily as an academic analysis and includes a lot of mythological features which aren't really relevant to genre writing.
The same thought occurred to me. For those who are interested, Chris Vogler wrote a book that applies this arc to fiction called The Writer's Journey. You can see the points in the hero's journey in this wiki post here.
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