I find myself thinking about the way of storytelling often, of the types of stories I have read most of my life. Such tales including those of heroes and gods, of princes and dragons, of detectives and criminals, of little girls and evil red queens. I long delighted in classic stories of good vs. evil, the hero vs. the villain.

Noticing a pattern of western storytelling, Joseph Campbell coined the term, "the hero's journey" in the 1940's, though the concept long predates him to the early times of...