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Transformation of a hero

They key to storytelling is the hero.

[!NOTE] They key to storytelling is the hero.

The hero is the central piece of the story.

You already know it, but the hero is here, and there is a start.

The hero feels and hears a call.

A call for an adventure.

This adventure is long, risky, dangerous.

But the hero will come back.

The hero will face antagnisms or antagonists.

The hero will undergo antagnisms like a huge tsunami, or an earthquake, or a huge meteorite.

The hero will confront antagonists like a secret villain with a masterplan to rule the world.

But then the hero will suffer, and search a way out.

The hero will find something and fight hard.

There will be lots of progress and then other issues.

But the hero makes it.

The hero somehow wins over the darkness.

There is this something.

This something that the hero finds, and works on, and finnaly masters.

The hero comes back with that something.

This something is a tool or object, or a new power or a new trick, or a learning or knowledge or wisdom.

Maybe the hero returns with all of that.

That's a story, that is the structure of a story.

And the hero starts somewhere ordinary, and comes back with something more.

The hero transforms.

Look up in this text, I started with:

[!NOTE] They key to storytelling is the hero.

Let's change that and adapt it better.

[!TIP] They key to storytelling is the transformation of the hero.