John Truby's The Anatomy of Story Master Class

Drawing on a broad range of concepts and archetypes from writing, philosophy, and mythology, John Truby provides fresh techniques and insightful principles that allow the writer to design an effective, multifaceted narrative.

In The Anatomy of Story Master Class, Truby not only explains how a great story works, he also gives you all the principles and techniques needed to create your own. Over three intense days, you’ll learn method of storytelling you can use whether you're writing a screenplay, novel, TV show, play, or short story.

Called "the best script doctor in the movie industry," Truby serves as a story consultant for major studios and production companies worldwide, and worked as a script doctor on more than 1,500 movies, sitcoms and television dramas for the likes of Disney, Sony Pictures, FOX, HBO, Alliance Atlantis, BBC,MTV and more.

More than 30,000 writers have attended Truby’s seminars around the world. From Los Angeles to New York to Paris, London, Vancouver, Sydney, Mexico City, Tel Aviv and other film capitals around the world, Truby regularly gives his seminar to packed houses around the world.

Topics covered in The Anatomy of Story Master Class include:

Day 1

• How to find the perfect story design
• Three confusions that hurt writers
• Uncovering the myth of 3-act story structure
• Seven Steps to deep structure
• Creating the single driving force
• Variations to classic story structure
• Key weaknesses of myth, fairy tale and drama
• Developing a great premise
• Building the hero from the ground up
• How the “character web” works
• True character change and how to write it
• Five Major character changes

Day 2

• The 22 building blocks of every great script
• Pacing by character growth, not page number
• Keys to the perfect opponent
• Creating the visual world
• Using the subplot
• Setting the tag line
• Building the reveals
• Choosing the right story shape
• Creating the strong middle
• The trick to scene sequencing
• How to write 3-track dialogue
• Secrets of building the scene
• Dialogue that increases the conflict

Day 3

• Detailed Analysis of the Genres: Action, Comedy, Crime, Detective, Fantasy, Horror, Love, Masterpiece, Myth, SciFi, Thriller and Mixed Genres
• What each genre really means
• Sequencing the moral elements of the story
• The central theme of each form
• Key structure techniques for each genre
• Mixing genres: The best strategies for story success
• Bending the genre rules for originality
• Techniques for transcending each genre

Los Angeles Location: Westin Hotel at LAX - 5400 W. Century Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90045

New York Location: The DoubleTree Hotel - Times Square, 1568 Broadway, New York, NY 10036-8201

Truby’s principles and methods are among the most modern, exciting approaches to screenwriting and storytelling to be developed in a generation. Enroll today and get ready to write your great story!