> All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. – [Leo Tolstoy](http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/57886-all-great-literature-is-one-of-two-stories-a-man)<\/p>\n
> A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes back from this mysterious adventure with the power to bestow boons on his fellow man. – [Joseph Campbell](http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Hero_with_a_Thousand_Faces)<\/p>\n
> Overcoming the Monster; Rags to Riches; The Quest; Voyage and Return; Comedy; Tragedy; Rebirth – [Christopher Booker](http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Seven_Basic_Plots)<\/p>\n
> Boy Meets Girl, The Little Tailor, and the Man-Who-Learns-Better – [Robert Heinlein](http:\/\/blog.karenwoodward.org\/2013\/09\/robert-heinlein-on-writing-of.html)<\/p>\n
And [many](http:\/\/www.ipl.org\/div\/farq\/plotFARQ.html), [MANY](http:\/\/www.brainpickings.org\/index.php\/2012\/01\/06\/plotto\/) [more](http:\/\/www.straightdope.com\/columns\/read\/2366\/what-are-the-seven-basic-literary-plots)…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
> All great literature is one of two stories; a man goes on a journey or a stranger comes to town. – [Leo Tolstoy](http:\/\/www.goodreads.com\/quotes\/57886-all-great-literature-is-one-of-two-stories-a-man) > A hero ventures forth from the world of common day into a region of supernatural wonder: fabulous forces are there encountered and a decisive victory is won: the hero comes…more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148,379,385],"tags":[358],"class_list":["post-5302","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-science-fiction","category-writing-2","tag-tagged"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9wjHJ-1nw","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5302","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5302"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5302\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5303,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5302\/revisions\/5303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5302"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5302"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bob.ryskamp.org\/brain\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5302"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}