Real quick at the top: Spoiler Warning. As we move through the steps of the Hero’s Journey I am going to use Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone, Alien, and The Grand Budapest Hotel as examples. With that out of the way, let’s head down the hero path…
Prologue: The Chapter Before Chapter One
This is a step that exists outside the standard Hero’s Journey outlines, but stories often use a prologue to include details that you’ll need to know for the story.
In the case of a frame story like we
