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Q&A Successful stories that don't follow the standard story template?

I'm mulling over a story that doesn't follow the standard story template of: Hero (or anti-hero) Hero has problem (or is problem) Hero fights problem Hero succeeds (or problem succeeds and all th...

1 answer  ·  posted 10y ago by empty‭  ·  last activity 5y ago by System‭

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#3: Attribution notice added by user avatar System‭ · 2019-12-08T03:31:02Z (about 5 years ago)
Source: https://writers.stackexchange.com/q/10924
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#2: Initial revision by user avatar empty‭ · 2019-12-08T03:31:02Z (about 5 years ago)
I'm mulling over a story that doesn't follow the standard story template of:

- Hero (or anti-hero)
- Hero has problem (or is problem)
- Hero fights problem
- Hero succeeds (or problem succeeds and all the permutations and varieties of hero and problem.)
- Hero is transformed. (Or not. Or eaten.)

Are there any stories that successfully break this template? What I'm looking for is not variants on the Hero's Journey where the parts are different or ironic but where the template itself is not used or referenced. The only thing that comes to mind are the existential novels of Camus or Sarte but those are rather depressing.

#1: Imported from external source by user avatar System‭ · 2014-05-12T17:42:20Z (over 10 years ago)
Original score: 4