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The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
- Send the hero on a circular journey through generally the same area.
John Truby • The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
Four-Corner Opposition
John Truby • The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
Serious novels typically depict how a person interacts and changes within an entire
John Truby • The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
KEY POINT: Your hero’s true desire is what he wants in this story, not what he wants in life.
John Truby • The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
No individual element in your story, including the hero, will work unless you first create it and define it in relation to all the other elements.
John Truby • The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
Leader to Visionary
John Truby • The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
Even when a character is wrong, he is wrong more eloquently than in real life.
John Truby • The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller
Drama is a code of maturity. The focal point is the moment of change, the impact, when a person breaks free of habits and weaknesses and ghosts from his past and transforms to a richer and fuller self.