Best selling genre plot beats with John Truby

Mind Your Business for Authors

Are you wondering what makes the difference between your story being in the top 0.1% of best-selling books and screenplays? John Truby joins us to talk about the anatomy of genres and how to use genre-specific beats from multiple genres to create iconic stories that transcend genre. John Truby is a story coach, a master of genre, and a believer that any story could be made into something powerful and memorable. He has studied best-selling books and screenplays, looking for the common thread that ran through them all. Truby studied the different genres and the beats that each of them contained, looking for common elements that could be used to create stories that transcended genre. Truby believes that the key to creating powerful stories was to use beats from multiple genres. It was the combination of different genres that made stories rich and complex. He writes in The "Anatomy of Genres" that by using the appropriate genres and their individual beats combined with the right structure, any story could be crafted into an iconic tale. Truby provides the tools to help aspiring storytellers find their own unique path to success. He teaches how to identify the various genres, the beats they contained and how to weave them together in a way that made the story exciting, memorable, and unpredictable. His methods had helped many of his students become some of the top 0.1% of best-selling books and screenplays. To learn more, go to https://truby.com/

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