Hero’s Journey

I have friends who don't want to their writing to be cookie-cutter, fill-in-the-blank stories, thus they hesitate to read books on story structure.   There are many more people who just want to write stories than there are people who want to study how to write stories.  Writing can be fun and exhilarating. A spurt of creativity and words pouring onto the page sometimes trigger a euphoric "high."  However it is an understanding of story structure…