*How To Create an Epic Story*

How To Create an Epic Story

by Amanda Blain
Published: Last Updated on

This is pretty funny for the lord of the rings, harry potter, star wars fan…. 🙂

But there is a formula for creating and “epic story” and this is it.

how to create an epic story

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Adam Freeman
Adam Freeman
11 years ago

ITS TRUE

Amanda Blain
Amanda Blain
11 years ago

THANKS   😀

Travis Blair
Travis Blair
11 years ago

3.5 add self-doubt for each protagonist with a bit of confusion about why they're "the chosen one".

Michael McIntyre
Michael McIntyre
11 years ago

Read Joseph Campbell's Hero of a Thousand Faces

Amanda Blain
Amanda Blain
11 years ago

Indeed  a good addition

Nick Jones
Nick Jones
11 years ago

Probably covers a big chunk of mythology too.

Leo Diaz
Leo Diaz
11 years ago

Hiring a great composer helps too

Radames Rodriguez Romero
Radames Rodriguez Romero
11 years ago

Nice

Armond Dillard
Armond Dillard
11 years ago

True

Gregory Pickering
Gregory Pickering
11 years ago

Also adding a mysteriously elusive love interest is helpful.

Sean McBeth
Sean McBeth
11 years ago

It's called the Hero's Journey and it's largely based on Greek mythology, so yeah, this is really a thing.

Nick Jones
Nick Jones
11 years ago

 Lucas worked with Joseph Campbell, or was influenced by him, right?

donald hakala
donald hakala
11 years ago

Don't forget to break the story up into several movies, and they are not sequels or prequels…they are, whats the word i'm searching for?  Episodic?
Whatever you call them, i love great fiction brought to life in this way.

Bob Schlaefer
Bob Schlaefer
11 years ago

Love it!!!

Elisan de oliveira brito
Elisan de oliveira brito
11 years ago

love harry potter

Rob E
Rob E
11 years ago

Frodo
Uncle Owen
Ben Kenobi
Sauron
Darth Vader

These will all be in my new book coming soon….. thanks Blainy!

Dennis Cross
Dennis Cross
11 years ago

Wow, ………. but it is true……….!

Bipin patel
Bipin patel
11 years ago

Nice photos

Nimeshka Srimal
Nimeshka Srimal
11 years ago

funny

raj gaba
raj gaba
11 years ago

Hey

Bipin patel
Bipin patel
11 years ago

Hey

abbireddy apparao
abbireddy apparao
11 years ago

Yeah true

Mo Sims
Mo Sims
11 years ago
Mo Sims
Mo Sims
11 years ago
David Rafdal
David Rafdal
11 years ago

Amanda blain you make my blood pump fast let us chat . I'm interested in learning to better my self through others peoples expanded minds

Mo Sims
Mo Sims
11 years ago
Donald Hume
Donald Hume
11 years ago

That's funny…and true…..except they should have used the Eye of Sauron instead of whatever dude that is for the villain in LOTR.  Sure, he was a villain, but Sauron was the real antagonist.

Just my geeky 2 cents worth.

Avi Hurewitz
Avi Hurewitz
11 years ago

Piece of cake

Atemu Mouto
Atemu Mouto
11 years ago

Yeah, but Snape wasn't evil and the ring wasn't any help …….

Ben McFarland
Ben McFarland
11 years ago

I don't know that Gollum was seeking redemption so much as the pull of the Ring forced him to get as close to it as possible, but otherwise, pretty spot on.

Salvador Melo
Salvador Melo
11 years ago

Step 7: transfer the awe inspiring story from print to screen, changing or forgetting key elements to assure true fans will provide free publicity by whining about how much the movies suck compared to the book(s).

Josh Bryson
Josh Bryson
11 years ago

haha nice! pretty spot on and definitely worth a laugh! 😀

donald hakala
donald hakala
11 years ago

They will never be as good as the books  because what i visualize in my mind differs from what you might imagine… or perhaps what Peter Jackson envisioned as he put LOTR on  film…However, i can't complain … i enjoyed the films AND the books

Dain Laguna
Dain Laguna
11 years ago

 i heart this intensely. muchas gracias 🙂

dhanashree gujarathi
dhanashree gujarathi
11 years ago

cool

Leonardo Jose
Leonardo Jose
11 years ago

How to create an epic story: Read the Bible, for in outside of it you will find no greater stories, women,  men or God. For who is greater than the God of the heavens and the earth… See? Jonah is three chapters long … lol… yet it lives forever… see?

Jonah 1
8 Then said they unto him, Tell us, we pray thee, for whose cause this evil is upon us; What is thine occupation? and whence comest thou? what is thy country? and of what people art thou?
9 And he said unto them, I am an Hebrew; and I fear the Lord, the God of heaven, which hath made the sea and the dry land.
10 Then were the men exceedingly afraid, and said unto him. Why hast thou done this? For the men knew that he fled from the presence of the Lord, because he had told them.

Johnny Roquemore
Johnny Roquemore
11 years ago

, you are absolutely right.

The Bible is easily one of the greatest works of fiction I have ever read in my entire life. Whats even better is…. rather than writing a sequel, the Bible has actually CREATED live entertainment day in and day out. Don't believe me? Go to church and you will see some of the most real looking fake plastic people you have ever met in your life.

Cameron Parry
Cameron Parry
11 years ago

 The Bible is unrealistic . Who would be stupid enough to believe a word of it …. oh wait 🙂

Jennifer Barr
Jennifer Barr
11 years ago

Another nice one !

Ronnie Boadi
Ronnie Boadi
11 years ago

 It was a good read, but a little too wordy for me. I prefer hitch hikers guide, it gets to the point far more quickly and at the end of the day 42 is a much simpler answer to everything and less contradictory.

Dain Laguna
Dain Laguna
11 years ago

 to be fair, alot of these epics that are mentioned draw heavily from biblical influences, especially tolkien, who was a devout catholic. i've always found it ironic how much people put the bible down, when it, directly or indirectly, has influenced works that so many folks such as yourself, love.

Dain Laguna
Dain Laguna
11 years ago

 uh…that IS sauron pictured there.

Johnny Roquemore
Johnny Roquemore
11 years ago

, I know the Bible well. 

I didnt ever put down the Bible. Though Im clearly being sarcastic in s direction…. I am 100% serious about what I said, I just framed it a bit different.

Also, the Bible didn't create the framework for all the stories we know and love… the generic concept of faith and religion did. I wouldn't give the Bible that much credit.

Annnnd to tie it up, you've made a strong assumption to lean on… I don't think I mentioned loving any of those works. You'd be surprised.

Dain Laguna
Dain Laguna
11 years ago

 forgive me for thinking that anyone commenting here wouldnt be a fan of the epics being discussed.

didnt say ALL of them drew from the good book either, just to be fair 😉

Amanda Blain
Amanda Blain
11 years ago
Eddieboy Flores
Eddieboy Flores
11 years ago

Holly carp brother..

Dain Laguna
Dain Laguna
11 years ago

 seriously. but i contributed. my bad.

andri nugraha
andri nugraha
11 years ago

what ever

Charlotte Clark
Charlotte Clark
11 years ago

love it

Sean John
Sean John
11 years ago

So true

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