The hero's journey, mapped
For the story you're writing —
or the life you're living.
An app built around Joseph Campbell and Christopher Vogler's twelve-stage structure — one mode for plotting fiction, one for mapping the people and turning points in your own life.
Get the free field guidePlate I — Life Mode
Map yourself onto the myth.
Every life already has a mentor in it, an ally, a shadow, a threshold you keep circling back to. Life Mode gives that structure a shape: place the real people around you — and the roles they play — onto the same twelve stages heroes have moved through in every culture's stories.
It draws on Jung, on world mythology, and on the plain fact that a life looked at this way is easier to make sense of. It's a tool for reflection and creativity, not a substitute for therapy.
Plate II — Story Mode
Structure the story you're telling.
For writers and worldbuilders: the same twelve-stage frame, built for plotting fiction rather than a life. Structure a narrative stage by stage, alongside the myths, novels, and films that have used the same shape before you.
The maker
Built by one person, on purpose.
MyHerosJourney is designed by Morten Lyngeng, who holds a PhD in philosophy. The Campbell/Vogler structure has been a working tool of mine for years, long before this app existed — it exists because I wanted to actually use it, not just write about it.
A gift before the app exists
Map your own life as a myth — free.
Map Your Life as a Myth is a fourteen-page guided field guide for Life Mode: place the mentors, allies, shadows, and thresholds of your own life onto the twelve stages, before the app is even built. Leave your email and it's yours right away. I'll write again only when MyHerosJourney ships.
You're on the list — and here's the field guide now: Map Your Life as a Myth (PDF). I'll write again the day the app ships.