How to Write the World’s
Most Popular Genre
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring, screenplay by
Peter Jackson,
Fran Walsh, Phillippa Boyens.
based on the novel series by J.R.R. Tolkien
“It’s a dangerous business, Frodo, going out your door.”
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“Before taking your Myth Class, the events within my story were less structured and the characters actions were less connected. The class has provided a deep understanding of the importance of all characters having their own goals and desire lines.“
Myth is the most popular of all story forms and is the basis of more blockbuster films and novels than any other genre by far.
But it comes with many hidden pitfalls. Myth uses the journey structure, which is a different kind of plotting technique than the one found in genres, like Detective, where the hero has to dig under the surface to get to the truth.
Or writers think you can just rewrite the old myths. But the old myths grew out of a local environment and a point of view unique to that place and time.
The result: most Myth writers end up with a tired, episodic, simple-minded mishmash.
John Truby’s MYTH AUDIO CLASS will turn you into an expert Myth storyteller. It will show you how to individuate archetypal characters to make them unique and map life changes in the story that transcend cultures.
Best of all, it will show you how to write one of the 8 new Myth forms that are popular the world over and will change popular storytelling for the next two decades.
Here are the main subjects we cover in the 17 modules:
1. How Myth is Different from other Story Forms
2. Myth Characters: from Gods to Hybrid Heroes
3. How to Write the 7 Big Archetype
4. Creating Magical Story Worlds
5. How Utopias and Dystopias Really Work
6. The 15 Myth Plot Beats
7. The Trick to Plot in the Middle
8. Symbol Map: What They Really Mean
9. What are the 8 New Myth Forms
10. Beats of the First New Female Myth
11. Beats of the Second New Female Myth
12. Beats of the Third New Female Myth
13. How to Write the Knights of the Future
14. Beats of the Rejuvenation Myth
15. Beats of the Life Journey
16. Beats of the Epic Comedy
17. Beats of the Eco Myth
• 8 new World Myths that will define the world market for the next 10 years and how to write them
• Great Myths of the past and how to modernize them
• Fundamental shifts in the world “mind”
• The best stories for the world market
• The new story forms that can lead the world
• The new man and the new woman
• Destructive American myths
• Early efforts at writing the World Myth and why they failed
• The new heroes
• The new world oppositions and how they will change storytelling
• The ecological vision and how it will determine storytelling