Aeon Template combining 12 steps of the Heroes Journey and Truby's 22 Steps

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#1

I created this file for myself and I’m finding fairly useful up to a point. It’s a combination of the Heroes Journey of 12 steps and buried within the 12 steps is Truby’s 22 steps. I’m sharing it as a normal Aeon 3 file rather than template as I discovered the notes I attached as RTF files didn’t follow through to the template format so you’ll have to base your template from this yourself. When you go to Timeline you’ll see the 22 steps going across in date order. Go down to groups and click on Stroy Arc and then click on each of the 12 steps to see them on the timeline. You’ll then get a cascade in chronological order of both the 22 steps and the 12. All these steps sound like an AA recovery program!

Well, I hope you writers find it useful, even for the perusal enjoyment. Don’t forget that each of the 22 steps has an RTF file attached with some notes on that step.

Written on Aeon 3 for Mac.

Good writing folks.

Jonathon

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#3

Thank you.
In case anyone was wondering, this opens in Windows.

#4

I always enjoy learning how other authors set things up in AT. Thank you for sharing it.

In this template, the story beats are set up as events. Out of curiosity, how does this work when it comes time to add the story’s events? Don’t these beat events sort of “collide” with the story events? What I mean is that you can have an event with the name of a story beat (as shown in the template), but there would presumably be one or more story events (scenes) that fulfill that event’s function. Do they peacefully coexist? It seems like apples and oranges somehow. I suppose I don’t know how this would work in practice, but I’m still learning AT, so I’m genuinely curious.

Another possible approach is to create a “Beats” item type and then add the story beats as items. In my case, I’m using the Save the Cat 15-beat system:

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Then, when outlining my story, in the inspector I select which beat(s) a given story event belongs to. This has the advantage of letting me view my story in various views according to story beats if I want to (I’m especially fond of the Subway view).

Any thoughts?