20Books Vegas 2023 Day 1 - How to Become a Plot Magician

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John Truby - How to Become a Plot Magician
Keyword: Craft Basics
Speaker: John Truby
Description: The biggest factor that distinguishes the top 1% of professional authors - who make the lion’s share of sales - from everyone else is the ability to create complex plot.
Even established writers know only a small percentage of the hundreds of plot techniques that go into writing a bestseller, book after book.
In this class you will learn powerful professional techniques to turn you into a plot magician able to compete with the top 1% of writers in the world.
Result: dramatically increase your readthrough rate, sell more books, and make serious money.
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Bio: John Truby
John Truby is Hollywood’s premiere story consultant to major studios like Disney, Pixar, Sony Pictures, Fox, HBO, the BBC, Universal, Canal Plus, Globo, and MTV. He has taught his ANATOMY OF STORY class and his Genre classes to over 50,000 students worldwide, including top novelists, screenwriters, and TV writers. Writers who have taken his courses have generated more than $20 billion at the box office. That’s because Truby goes beyond the simplistic 3-act structure and hero’s journey to teach the special story techniques that only the top professionals know and use. His Blockbuster story software is the preeminent story software in the world.
truby.com
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[@DrReneeMichaels]

He is succinct and concrete. Great information to present. Thank you. Now to dive into both of his books.

[@hcu4359]

Looks like a lot of the tracking stuff from his software could be done in excel.

[@bernsky]

sales pitch

[@whhiii]

Just downloaded thanks

[@elizabethhamister7732]

Super judgy with examples from the 80’s and 90’s.

[@dex4463]

Some nuggets of useful information here, but he has a tendency to state too many things as facts when it's just his opinion.