I’ve seen a lot of stories about AI copy in the news recently and it made me curious. How could an AI write a better blog than a human, with all the experience and understanding of what makes humans tick. So, I decided to give it a test and this is the result.

I browsed to https://copy.ai and asked it to create a blog post about using the Hero’s Journey to write mystery fiction. This is the output. Let me know what you think.

How to use the Hero’s Journey to write mystery fiction

Introduction

The Hero’s Journey is an approach to writing fiction that helps you craft a story that truly makes your reader feel like they’re on a journey with the protagonist. It can be used in any genre, but it’s especially useful for mystery stories because mystery stories tend to have really exciting scenes that are not resolved at the end of the book. This means there will be lots of moments when your hero fails to solve things or doesn’t realize what they’re seeing until later on in the story.

This post is going to give you some tips on how we can use this toolkit together: the Hero’s Journey!

Discover the circumstances that make your character an ordinary person.

In the days of yore, writers were told to “show, don’t tell” their stories. But when it comes to mystery fiction—and in particular, detective stories—telling is still king. That’s because mysteries require you to give readers an idea of what’s going on with your characters before they can figure out what happens next.

So how do you make your reader believe that they know someone? You need them to see their flaws and contradictions as well as their strengths and talents. The hero may not be perfect or even heroic all the time; he may have some flaws that make him human rather than superhuman (or at least closer to human). But if he does have a weakness or two hidden beneath his tough exterior (for example: alcoholism), then those weaknesses are where our story begins!

Describe an event that forces your character to leave their ordinary world and journey into the unknown.

Here’s the thing: you can’t just write a mystery novel about a detective who solves crimes. Instead, you need to introduce some kind of event that forces your character into an unfamiliar world and makes them question their identity.

The event should be something big—like losing all their money or getting locked in a room with no way out—that forces them out of their comfort zone. It could also be something personal like having someone close to them die or being accused of murder by someone else (even if there’s no evidence). Whatever it is, this change will send them on a journey where they’ll learn new things about themselves along the way and ultimately discover who they truly are as individuals before returning home again at the end of their adventure…or not!

Show how your character fails to resolve the challenge in a way that leads to a big reveal.

When you’re writing a mystery, it can be tempting to think of the hero’s journey as a series of steps that happen in order to solve the problem at hand. But if your character fails to resolve the challenge in a way that leads to a big reveal, then they’ve failed—and we all know how much fun it is for readers when characters fail!

So what does this mean for your novel? Well, first off: surprise! The hero should be surprised by something big happening at some point during their journey. It could be something unexpected or shocking; it could even lead them closer (or further) from where they thought they were going before starting out on their adventure.

If you want your reader feeling bad-ass while reading this kind of story—and who wouldn’t?—then make sure there’s an emotional pay-off when things turn out differently than expected..

Show how your character thinks they have resolved the challenge in a way that leads to a twist.

• The hero thinks they have resolved the challenge, but they have not.

• The hero thinks they have resolved the challenge, but they have not, because the hero has made a mistake.

Describe how resolving the challenge has changed the hero’s worldview.

• The hero has learned something about themselves.

• The hero has learned something about the world.

• The hero has learned something about other people and their relationship to it, as well as their own place in it.

The Hero’s Journey is a tool writers can use when crafting mystery stories.

The Hero’s Journey is a tool writers can use when crafting mystery fiction. It’s a template that can help you create stories with compelling plots and characters, but it also has its limitations. If you want to write a great mystery story, this is the guide that will help get you there!

As discussed earlier in this article, the hero’s journey involves three main steps: 1) The call to adventure; 2) Initiation; 3) Return home safely (the crisis). Each step builds on each other so that by the end of your novel, everything has come together perfectly – or at least close enough for someone who doesn’t know much about literature would think so anyway…

Conclusion

The Hero’s Journey is a tool that writers can use to craft mystery stories. Understanding how the story progresses from ordinary to extraordinary allows us to create tension and suspense in the reader, creating a more immersive experience for them.