All the Professional Techniques
for Advanced Storytelling
Pulp Fiction, Oscar winning screenplay by Quentin Tarantino,
stories by Quentin Tarantino & Roger Avary
“Do you know what they call a quarter pounder in France?
They call it a Royale with cheese.”
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Want to create your unique story brand?
“Truby’s 22 steps, based on a moral understanding of the world, makes you not only a better writer but a better person.”
“This course is so good I took it twice. “
As a writer, your goal is to become a unique story brand and sell your stories.
The reality of being a writer in the worldwide story market is that you must be one of the top 1%, because they make 90% of the sales in every medium.
Fact: most writers don’t know the techniques the professionals use.
Sure, you’ve read about 3-act structure and save the cat.
But these beginner books have almost no practical techniques at the professional level.
Do you really think these basic level texts everyone else is using will get you to the top?
The only way to set yourself apart from all the other writers who want to succeed in the competitive entertainment business is to create an original product. The entertainment business sells individuality, packaged really well.
In this business you are selling yourself, and writing the advanced story, whether for film, television, or novel, is by far the best way to do it.
Writing a MASTERPIECE means creating complex characters, inventing your own story structures, tracking twisted moral arcs, and expressing the big themes.
If you want to write the most ambitious story possible and stand above the crowd, you need to know the advanced techniques that only the top professionals use.
MASTERPIECE: TECHNIQUES OF ADVANCED STORYTELLING is filled with the most detailed professional techniques found in masterpiece scripts like American Beauty, Forrest Gump, and Pulp Fiction.
If you’re serious about being a top professional writer, this course is a must.
Here are the main subjects we cover in the 22 modules:
1. What is Masterpiece Storytelling?
2.The 8 Advanced Story Beats
3. How to Create the Advanced Story World
4. Worlds of Shame & Guilt
5. Individualizing 7 Character Archetypes
6. Creating the 4-Point Opposition for Great Storytelling
7. The 5 Advanced Moral Arguments
8. The Trick to the Advanced Battle
9. Connecting Premise to Theme
10. 4 Advanced Story Shapes
11. Myth-Drama Story Beats
12. 6 Myth Models
13. Fairy Tale-Drama Story Beats
14. Transcending Fantasy
15. Transcending Drama Beats
16. Advanced Comedy Story Beats
17. True Stories
18. Biography, Round, & Chinese Boxes
19. Key Rules for Storytellers
20. Great Opening Scenes
21. Scene Sectioning
22. Great Closing Scenes
• Great openings and closings
• Writing Myth-Drama and Fairy Tale-Drama
• Multi-main character stories
• Writing archetypal heroes
• 4 kinds of advanced structures
• Reality-based stories
• Character growth and decay
• Advanced Comedy
• Using story shapes to plot the script
• Visionary drama
• Using the crosscut to expand the middle
• Creating a powerful theme and tying it to a structure
• When to use a storyteller
• Creating your own structure