As an English teacher and an environmental writer, I love this!
Storytelling comes naturally to humans, but since we live in an unnatural world, we sometimes need a little help doing what we’d naturally do.
I’m a big fan of the work of Dan Harmon, writer of amazing tv shows like Community and Rick & Morty, and I’ve often heard him talk on his podcast (‘Harmontown’) about his ‘story circle’: a pattern to which most good stories conform.
The REAL structure of any good story is simply circular – a descent into the unknown and eventual return – and that any specific descriptions of that process are specific to you and your story.
The structure itself is pretty simple: a circle, divided and numbered as below, with each number representing a step on our journey.
- When you
- have a need,
- you go somewhere,
- search for it,
- find it,
- take it,
- then return
- and change things.
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Very Nice. I like it. I could use that structure for many of life’s journeys. Dan
Although trained as a visual artist, I am finding that being able to tell a simple story has helped people to entertain the art I make. Very good post…thanks for sharing.