I’m obsessed with things like this, especially when they’re funny.
STORY
Guys if you like stories or want to write stories or if you are just interested in learning why you spend like 90% of your life digesting the same kinds of narratives over and over and are too lazy to read Joseph Campbell, these essays by Dan Harmon are reaallly enlightening/good (delete for desired level of pretension).
Story Structure 101: Super Basic Shit
Story Structure 102: Pure, Boring Theory
Story Structure 103: Let’s Simplify Before Moving On
Story Structure 104: The Juicy Details
Story Structure 105: How TV is Different
Story Structure 106: Five Minute Pilots (this talks specifically about story structure in terms of the five minute comedy shorts for which these tutorials were written, but it’s still interesting)
