> Most Stories are the Same. Kurt Vonnegut once said that there are only six types of story.
There are countless writers who have said that there are only X types of stories. Sometimes there are 3, 6, 12, or 50. They all claim that their categorization is the one that captures every story ever told, and they all manage to fit any story into one of their categories (it really helps that they're vague and people are willing to stretch and shoehorn things).
All stories are the same in the way all songs or poetry are the same. They have a structure (well, a bunch of different structures) that audiences tend to enjoy, and that artists follow because it helps them to have a more structured process (or sometimes they break/ignore the rules, or just don't know them, and create awesome works of art anyway). But that doesn't make every story "the same" just like using the rules of perspective, construction, and anatomy doesn't make every painting the same.
There are countless writers who have said that there are only X types of stories. Sometimes there are 3, 6, 12, or 50. They all claim that their categorization is the one that captures every story ever told, and they all manage to fit any story into one of their categories (it really helps that they're vague and people are willing to stretch and shoehorn things).
All stories are the same in the way all songs or poetry are the same. They have a structure (well, a bunch of different structures) that audiences tend to enjoy, and that artists follow because it helps them to have a more structured process (or sometimes they break/ignore the rules, or just don't know them, and create awesome works of art anyway). But that doesn't make every story "the same" just like using the rules of perspective, construction, and anatomy doesn't make every painting the same.