So I said to myself, I said, said I, "Hey, my writing friends may enjoy this too.
In "The Great Code" by Northrup Frye he names Seven elements of the literary structure of revelation (read story) as: 1. Creation (got to start somewhere on that blank page), 2. Exodus (remember Campbell's Hero's Journey), 3. Law (those pesky rules of English grammar and publishing house criteria), 4. Wisdom (What do the hero or heroine learn?), 5. Prophecy (fore-shadowing), 6. Gospel (the truth revealed), and 7. Apocalypse (the Black Moment) where the readers gets to cheer for the right decisions of the writer's characters.
Published on January 05, 2014 11:34