

This is where the Hero's exists before his present story begins, oblivious of the adventures to come. This is essentially a more detailed Character Arc for your story's hero which is overlayed onto the more traditional three-act structure that many successful Hollywood movies such as Star Wars and The Wizard of Oz when analyzed appear to follow. The 12 Stages of The Hero's JourneyĪ popular form of structure derived from Joseph Campbell's Monomyth from his book The Hero With A Thousand Faces and adapted by Christopher Vogler is the Twelve Stage Hero's Journey. The trick is to initially let the ideas flow without paying too much attention to structure and then in your second pass begin to focus your story and separate the wheat from the chaff. Well, theoretically it won't but I'm sure someone will find a way! Let your characters define the story and your story define your structure and then use a formula if necessary to tighten your script. There's no point trying to write a comedy and forcing the structure of a thriller upon it - it won't work. In the end, a story should dictate the kind of structure it follows or whether it shouldn't follow a structure at all. Some try not to subscribe to any and see the whole idea of structure as "evil", feeling that a story should evolve organically without rules confining ideas or obstructing the creative flow. The thing is, there are many forms of structure and some writers subscribe to one formula, while others subscribe to another. After facing many foes and overcoming various obstacles the hero saves the day and wins the girl. In the beginning you setup your hero (or heroine) and his story, then you throw something at him that is a great source of conflict and takes him into a whole heap of trouble. “Because I think when you’re honest with yourself, you’re able to be honest with others.To Structure Or Not To Structure? That Is The Question.Įvery story has a beginning, a middle and an end. The singer told host Glennon Doyle, 47, on the ‘We Can do Hard Things’ podcast about how she felt better after her marriage split: “I can say that after (the divorce) I’m a far better mother. Kelly and Brandon did not reach a settlement until two years after she filed for divorce. Lonely as in, like, you miss your family, you miss just having any family, or that kind of relationship.” Not as in, like, ‘I need a boyfriend’ kind of thing. It was just me and my kids all the way on that coast. She added she felt like LA was “never her thing” in the two decades she has lived in the city, and said: “I never wanted to live there in the first place. “Also it just proved I’ve never really liked living in LA.”


A lot of us didn’t make it relationship-wise.

Referencing her divorce, she also said on the ‘Today’ show: “I think Covid pointed out a lot of things. She added she is now happy to be moving her self-titled talk show to New York after finding life in Los Angeles isolating following the break-up, especially during the pandemic. “I think when you have kids… you kind of debate, ‘What am I going to do here?’ So I was very selective about the songs I picked for the album.”Īhead of the release of the record, Kelly admitted she was “lonely” after her divorce from Brandon. And I’ve always released personal music – I think I’m that kind of writer in general, everybody knows that. Kelly acknowledged Brandon probably won’t be listening to the album, which is said to be scathing about their relationship, adding: “It’s very personal. Now there’s a lot of pain, but that’s what happens for all of us.” “You know what I’m saying? It’s all in there, the ride.
