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It’s no secret that people love to make sequels or prequels to popular stories. Just look at Hollywood today but while you can complain all you want about a lack of original material in storytelling of any type, there is a bigger problem you may not realise.
There are no original stories. Not since the first cave man painted on walls has there been a completely original story. It’s because every story draws from the ones told before it in some way. Whether it’s a structure or a specific character trait, it has all been done before in one way or another. Don’t believe it?
Any story that has a main character who starts from humble beginnings and becomes rich in wisdom money or something else is following an already established structure that has been used time and time again.
If you found a story that didn’t follow that structure at all chances are it would still draw from some other story from before. If it’s true there are no new stories, then why are new stories still made? Why do people still pay when they know what is going to happen?
It’s because the system works. Everyone knows that the hero of the story is going to win most of the time but they still pay to read or see how they do win. It’s because of natural curiosity. It’s what makes people get excited about stories that have been told time and time again as it always works.
It’s just like Russel Brunsons’s Click Funnels system. Click Funnels works on a simple concept and effective principle just like natural curiosity that is that people get on the Internet.