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The Story Template is a new writing tool soon to be available on the market in 2010-2011.  It describes story structure on the data-persuaded assumption that "good" stories are nearly identical in the elements of structure it describes.  Its data sample does not include short stories, comics, TV shows, documentaries, plays etc., but does include novels and full-length movies.    

 

The Story Template proposes a description of story including a greater number of essential elements than those described in systems such as Freytag's Pyramid, The Hero's Journey, or The Monomyth.  Furthermore, The Story Template also insists that existing systems, particularly The Hero's Journey and The Monomyth are too rigid in their interpretation of story to be applicable to most "good" works.  

 

The Story Template embraces a more fluid model that it claims is both sensitive and specific to most "good" works.  The Story Template was compiled by analyzing subjectively-chosen "good" modern stories side-by-side for similarities.  The proportions of these similarities in reference to the story's endpoints were finalized through a statistical analysis among subjects.

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This study establishes the credibility of The Story Template in two potential applications.  The first application is the use of The Story Template by editors and agents to increase their efficiency when choosing publishable material and later pinpointing errors in the story construct that must be revised before it is published.  
The second application of The Story Template is its use by novelists and screenwriters while they develop their stories.  In either case, the purpose of The Story Template is to add structure to a now solely intuitively-guided field.  This structure may help to limit time wasted to 'reinventing the wheel' in the context of story.  
It may serve as a starting place from which artists may get past 'writers' block' when designing story.  Before writers and editors begin using The Story Template as it is intended, they should validate its credibility - an element indicated in this study by final sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy scores.  Further validation trials will be required to establish The Story Template as a reputable theory, but this research will provide the ground-breaking step in that corroboration process.
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