The Dan Harmon Story Circle may be the best thing since the Blake Snyder Beat Sheet. If you’re not familiar with Mr. Harmon’s work, he’s the creator of the innovative comedy series Community and was the head writer on The Sarah Silverman Program.
Harmon has a theory of story that he built off of Joseph Campbell’s hero’s journey. The basic idea is quite simple:
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.
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