Story structure
The Story Circle
Dan Harmon's eight-step simplification of the monomyth: You, Need, Go, Search, Find, Take, Return, Change.
Dan Harmon's Story Circle is an eight-step compression of the Hero's Journey: You (a character in a zone of comfort), Need (wants something), Go (enters an unfamiliar situation), Search (adapts to it), Find (gets what they wanted), Take (pays a heavy price for it), Return (back to the familiar situation), Change (having changed).
Its value is diagnostic speed: eight steps are few enough to check any episode, scene or chapter against, which is why it is popular for episodic and serialized writing.