The Grand Tapestry Video Class

The Best Way to Get into the Top 1% of Writers Worldwide

Here’s the secret: the top 1% of writers – who make 90% of the sales – distinguish themselves from everyone else because they know how to create complex plot.  

What distinguishes the top .1% of writers from everyone else is the ability to express advanced themes through complex plot. 

And that means Grand Tapestry storytelling. 

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Fourth listen to Grand Tapestry; class 2 is the best contribution to storycraft in the last 100 years, and the classifying/categorizing of genre in session 5 will be the greatest in the next hundred.

- Mark Huckabee

The three biggest publishers in Norway now want to give me a contract less than a week after I sent them my manuscript. A huge thanks to John Truby for all your wonderful insights and knowledge in this class. It has helped me tremendously!

- Hilde Saeteroy Palladino

An absolutely brilliant class. And we are all so very lucky to be in this elite group. No one else on the planet is teaching story technique at this level.

- Rachel Funk Heller

     Fact: if you want to get into the top 1% of writers worldwide who are writing the stories that create the culture, if you want to go from progress to greatness, you have to write… 

The Solution:

The Grand Tapestry Story

In any story that is going to work at the top professional level, you have to connect hundreds of story elements into a beautifully woven tapestry.  

Not just all the beats of 2-4 genres, but the elements of premise, the 7 structure steps, the 22 structure steps, a complex character web, the moral dilemmas and revelations, symbol, and theme, sequenced in a scene list to create the maximum narrative drive, all condensed down, in miniature, into scene and dialogue. 

It’s all about seeing your story as a grand system, a “Grand Tapestry” of complex plot and advanced theme that overwhelms the reader with power and pleasure.  

Bottom line: if you want to be significant in the storytelling industry, you have to be at least as good as the best.  

That’s why The Grand Tapestry Story: Advanced Philosophy Techniques in Story was born.  

In this class, I’ll show you how to write a magnificent tapestry found only in the great stories.  

They’re also stories with the best chance of selling and selling big. 

It’s all about writing and living the grand tapestry

The Grand Tapestry Course Guide

Here’s how the class works:

5 sessions in 7+ hours recorded on video.

Each session covers top techniques for how to express advanced theme through complex plot so you can write a great story in any medium.

All techniques are profound but also expressed in easy-to-understand bullet points you can apply right away.

For each idea, you will learn techniques for: 

1. how to live

2. how to think

3. how to write

You also get access to our private Facebook group, Truby Philosophy, to share and exchange ideas.

Each session is one step in a focused sequence for each writer to create their own unique story brand, which can be produced and/or published when the work is finished. 

Here are just a few of the top-line topics we cover: 

Writing

How to make Narrative Drive speed up as you get to the end of the story

How to create complex Plot Tapestry without losing Narrative Drive

Advanced Narrative Drive Techniques: Crosscut vs. Vortex Point

Compressing the System into a Scene

Character Fractals and Plot Fractals: the revolutionary techniques that make the Grand Tapestry story possible

How to make the crucial jump from Punch/Counterpunch to Scene Weave

The Rule of 3 and why it will always be one of the best techniques in story

Key plot and thematic techniques for both Advanced and Epic storytelling

Story World = Hero: the key to world building

Thinking  

10 Greatest Ideas in history and why they still make all the difference in the world

Biggest Errors of the Mind and how they ruin your life

What is the Original Sin of the Mind and how do you avoid it

The all-powerful Rule of 4

How Fractals can change the way you see the world 

How Prisoner’s Dilemma explains the way we live and think today

The Fallacy of Smell the Roses and what works instead 

Living  

The Philosophical System that’s embedded in the Story Code

Epicureanism vs. Stoicism and why each is valuable today

The Moral Code: key to a great story and a great life

The Paradox of Freedom through Limited Choice

How the “Limited TimeConcept can actually improve your life

The Path to Happiness: it’s not as hard as you think

The 5 video sessions of this class will give you the techniques so you can win the story game at the highest levels.   

It’s not enough for you to have the desire and the talent. You have to know the techniques. You have to have the skills. 

Don’t miss this opportunity to raise your storytelling skills into the top 1%, while gaining wisdom that can change your life for the better. 

The Grand Tapestry Bonuses!

Over 50,000 writers have taken my story classes and turned their writing dreams into reality. 

I am laser focused on giving you your best chance at professional success.  

So, I want to give you a free BONUS course that will help you get maximum traction on writing for the worldwide story market, straight out of the gate. 

Choose one of these courses when you purchase The Grand Tapestry to get the practical techniques that will kick your story up to the professional level right now! 

Your choice of:

Story for Money

Story Rescue

Avatar: How to Write
the Female Myth

Westworld: How to
Write the new Epic

[BONUS #1] Story for Money Class 

($59 Value) 

How to write stories that sell like hot cakes. Every. Single. Time.

In this training you will learn:

  • The biggest problem in popular story today.
  • The #1 misconception writers have about selling their script.
  • The 1st rule of writing a blockbuster script and a bestselling novel
  • Why narrative drive is the most important aspect of ANY story you write, no matter what your medium. (Nail this and 80% of your work is done!)
  •  Strategies used by JRR Tolkien in The Lord of the Rings and Suzanne Collins in The Hunger Games trilogy that create blockbuster stories.
  •  Why 3-act structure, the hero’s journey, and save the cat won’t begin to give you a plot that works at the professional level. 
  •  The one story element Hollywood looks for in a script that’s more important than all the other story elements combined.
  • Why it has to be in your premise, or it will never be there at all.
  • How to CREATE A DESIRE LINE that MAXIMIZES the narrative drive.
  • The all-important connection between Narrative Drive and Opponent (no one else in story is teaching this, though this is one of my favorite techniques which can make or destroy a story).
  •  How narrative drive changes based on your Genre.
  •  Which Characters promote narrative drive, and which don’t. (Knowing this you can put your focus on the 20% that is going to make 80% of the difference to the power of your story.)
  • Why adequate Conflict is one of the keys to great narrative drive (and the ability to accelerate it towards the finish line.)
  • The one technique that will immediately get the reader to want to read anything you write. 
  •  Why Story World is the biggest enemy of narrative drive, and yet a VITAL component to your voice… and then knowing how to make them work together for maximum impact.
  •  How to create Plot that increases narrative drive in every story medium.
  •  How Narrative Drive differs in film, TV, novel, and video game.
  •  How to create a strong Theme that doesn’t kill narrative drive, rather supports it and ADDS to the texture of the weave.

[BONUS #2] Story Rescue Class 

($59 Value) 

The Story Rescue Class helps you fix the 7 most important structural mistakes on which almost all other mistakes in your story are founded.

In this training you will learn:

  • Key techniques to layer EMOTION into your story – and make your reader CARE DEEPLY about your characters.
  • The first rule of writing a bestselling novel.
  • How to fix a weak desire line.
  • The *ONE* character you must get right (hint: it’s not the protagonist!).
  • The STORY STRATEGY that will turn your hard work into sales.
  • The fatal flaw that 99% of writers make, to which there is no fix if you make it.
  • The trick to making your readers immediately love your hero.
  • The nuance that makes your hero legendary in story circles, and a bestseller (no one talks about this).
  • The GENRE ELEMENT every story needs (regardless of the genre you’re using! Yeah, I know. Check it out and I’ll explain).

[BONUS #3] Avatar: How to Write the Female Myth 

($79 Value) 

Learn the key story beats and techniques that made this movie the biggest blockbuster in history, with narrative drive off the charts – something every screenplay and novel today MUST have.

It’s all about the new Female Myth, the story form I believe will dominate worldwide storytelling for decades to come.

If you write novels, why would it be valuable to learn the key techniques of this immensely popular movie?  

Because the most popular novels and the novels that repeat in a series have to read like a fast-paced MOVIE.  

And it should be a movie that is part of a series, just like a novel series.  

You won’t believe how much you’ll learn about writing a great novel series by looking at my Avatar class.

In this training you will learn: ​

  • The real Myth story beats, the ones that make a great myth like Avatar, not the superficial beats everyone normally associates with this story form.
  • How to execute the story beats of the Myth genre, which is the foundation of more blockbuster scripts than any other by far.
  • How to twist the beats of the Myth form, which is the #1 strategy for placing yourself above the crowd in the competitive world of storytelling.
  • How the film creates a story revolution by tracking two conflicts: between a technological society and a nature society and between a Male Myth and a Female Myth.
  • How to write a mixed genre script, which is the only script Hollywood now buys.
  • A perfect example of a Female Myth story, a story form that I believe will be the most popular genre over the next two decades worldwide.

[BONUS #4] Westworld: How to Write the New Epic 

($79 Value) 

Learn the key elements of the New Epic that can change the world and rocket you to the top.

In this training you will learn:

  • What the New Epic is, given recent changes in storytelling.
  • Why Epic is the key to the stories you want to write, in EVERY medium.
  • What the New Epic is, given recent changes in storytelling.
  • Why Epic is the key to the stories you want to write, in EVERY medium.
  • Why this form allows you to overcome the basic black-and-white tropes of simplistic story forms to explore more complex characters and character webs.
  • How to execute the New Epic story structure that appeals to the consciousness of a worldwide audience.
  • How Westworld goes beyond the simplistic dystopia vs. utopia distinction in Science Fiction and Fantasy stories to do something really advanced.
  • The best genres for writing epic, worldbuilding stories.
  • The difference of writing an epic for TV, novels, and film.
  • Why Westworld is the perfect transmedia story.
  • Why the TV serial shows writers the keys to writing serial novels.
  • How Westworld does the serial novel to perfection (extending plot).
  • How mixing the right genres in the right way is the key to Westworld’s success.
  • How Westworld creates one of the best story worlds in history.
  • How Westworld connects characters to story world to plot.
  • How the meta story elements kick Westworld to another level of excellence and consciousness.
  • How to explore and demonstrate moral revelations for your characters in this new form.
  • How Westworld creates human – or is it super-human – consciousness.

Raves about The Grand Tapestry Class 

“It takes a genius to condense so much complex material down to something that is clear, concise and actionable. John has this rare skill… His discoveries about story structure are also the product of genius.” 

Mark O’Bannon 

“The Anatomy of Story has been my writing bible for years, but this Grand Tapestry course has truly taken things to the next level.” 

Bill Alive

“Thank you once again John Truby for an outstanding class! I’ve enjoyed all of your classes, but this Grand Tapestry series has been the series of classes that finally clicked for me. The Grand Tapestry class changed my life. I think this is a true testament to your techniques and just wanted to say thank you. Carpe Diem!” 

Sarah Normandie

Transcendental. Thanks John.” 

Ian McMurphy 

“Thank you so much, John. I’m so excited to start on my next project and see what is possible with the Grand Tapestry. I truly enjoyed the class.” 

Amanda Yardley Luzzander 

“This has been such an amazing ADVANCED class. This has been worth gold.” 

Stephanie Kay Ventling 

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