Discover the Secrets to Writing a Great Story in These Popular Forms of Extreme Make Believe
The Matrix, screenplay by Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowksi
“You take the blue pill, the story ends. You wake up in your bed and believe whatever you want to believe.”
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“I am proud to say that my second novel will be published by one of the best Sci-Fi editors in France, Gilles Dumay, in a great publishing house, Albin Michel. All the things I learned in your Anatomy of Story class helped so much!”
“I used The Anatomy of Genres to plot my new Fantasy Romance series, and now there is SO much narrative drive, which I really struggled to create in previous books.”
What’s your vision of the future of humankind? Horror, Fantasy, and Science Fiction are the great forms of speculative fiction, and they can be tremendously creative. But while these genres are related, they give audiences very different visions of humanity. And the challenges to writing a great one in each form are quite different.
Our HORROR–FANTASY–SCIENCE FICTION AUDIO CLASS will make these highly creative but challenging forms so much easier to write.
This ground-breaking class gives you the tools and structures to make these most “high concept” of all genres real and original. Learn how to create the terrifying impact of Jaws, the sheer fun of ET and Big, and the complex world of The Matrix. If you are a visionary – of either darkness or light – these forms are for you.
Here are the main subjects we cover in the 23 modules:
1. How Horror Works
2. What to Watch Out For
3. The 15 Horror Story Beats
4. The Horror Hero
5. Creating the Monster
6. Techniques of the Monster’s Attack
7. Tricks for the Middle
8. The Final Battle and the Double Ending
9. Transcending Horror
10. How Fantasy Works
11. What to Watch Out For
12. The 13 Fantasy Story Beats
13. Creating the Fantasy World
14. Arenas, Crazy Characters, & Passageways
15. The Unique Fantasy Hero & Opponent
16. Transcending Fantasy
17. How Science Fiction Works
18. What to Watch Out For
19. The 4 Models of the Universe
20. Creating the Science Fiction World
21. The Unique S-F Hero & Opponent
22. S-F Plot Tricks and Smaller Worlds
23. Transcending Science Fiction
• 16 key story beats of the Horror form
• Ideal method for writing Horror
• 6 Inherent problems to overcome
• Creating Horror characters
• Monster chart
• Twisted psychology of the Horror mind
• ”The dark side” – what it really means
• The monster that propels the Horror story
• Key Horror symbols
• 12 most dangerous Horror errors
• How to write a great Horror story
• Fantasy high concept
• 13 key story beats of the Fantasy form
• Ideal method for writing Fantasy