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This week I have been mostly writing and walking up mountains. I read John Yorke's book Into the Woods. Again like Blake Synder, these are not primarily for novels/short stories but what they say about the structure of stories is applicable to all forms of storytelling

You may know that I have been interested in in Carl Jung's ideas for at least twenty years and Yorke references Jung through Joseph Campbell. There are certain things that are common to all cultures at all times and these are language, music and storytelling. We tell stories because we have to - they are like birdsong is to blackbirds, hard wired because they perform some archetypal purpose.

I think I have neglected structure up until now, but pop songs are crafted onto a recognisable structure as is most painting. So it's seems obvious that stories are and that they are more satisfying when they obey the rules of story structures. 

So that's what I'm doing now. Time will tell if people respond positively to the stuff I produce that pays much more attention to structure.

Laters.