Write about it.
Joseph Campbell, a mythologist, professor, and writer of the seminal "The Hero with a Thousand Faces."
TheHeroist
an idea development tool for storytellers
With the power of the Hero's Journey model, combined with the simplicity of a mind-mapping interface, TheHeroist gives you a wealth of narrative tools within a simple and organised workspace, so you can focus on your storytelling rather than your workflow.
Streamline it.
Christopher Vogler, a story consultant, educator, and author of the hugely influential "The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers."
Get a backbone, or narrative spine.
Joseph Campbell's "Hero's Journey" (or monomyth), as explained in "The Hero with a Thousand Faces," is a model of narrative structure. Campbell developed this model based on exhaustive research of narratives from different cultures all over the world, spanning from antiquity to present times. In brief, he discovered that all stories share a universal structure that highlights a common, repeating narrative pattern of a hero (protagonist) who departs their ordinary world, is initiated into the special world, then returns home with new found knowledge/reward to share with their community.
Christopher Vogler streamlined Campbell's complex 17-stage Hero's Journey to a 12-stage model in his book "The Writer's Journey: Mythic Structure for Writers." Vogler's Hero's Journey model has 12-stages for the external journey (plot), and a corresponding 12-stage internal journey (character arc). Additionally, while Campbell identified the patterns of various archetypal characters, Vogler developed them into well-defined character tools. TheHeroist uses Vogler's model as its theoretical base.
Single-View Interface
There are two sections: the Note Section at the top, and the Canvas at the bottom. Slide the divider-line up or down to reveal more or less of either section.
When you tap a stage's node in the Canvas, its corresponding Note Section will appear. Use the Note Sections to brainstorm ideas for the selected stage or archetypal character of your story. Each Note Section has collapsable, built-in definitions and tools for the selected stage, to kickstart your brainstorm. You can export and share your Note Sections as .pdf, .txt, or .md files.
Each Stage of the Journey Has Its Own Node
Randomisation
Use the Master Template or Customise Your Own Map
Use the Master Template that matches Vogler's Hero's Journey, or build your own map by dragging and dropping nodes from the Story Node Selector into the Canvas, then connect the nodes as you see fit.
Beat Sheets
Use the four Beat Sheet Buttons in the corners of the Canvas to load built-in beat sheets from published/produced narratives from a variety of disciplines. These beat sheets have been broken-down according to Vogler's Hero's Journey. When you load beat sheets into the buttons, and you tap a stage-node in the canvas, the corresponding stage of the loaded beat sheets will appear, so you can consider how published/produced narratives handled that particular stage.