9780374539221-0374539227-Anatomy of Genres

Anatomy of Genres

ISBN-13: 9780374539221
ISBN-10: 0374539227
Author: John Truby
Publication date: 2022
Publisher: Picador Paper
Format: Paperback 720 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780374539221
ISBN-10: 0374539227
Author: John Truby
Publication date: 2022
Publisher: Picador Paper
Format: Paperback 720 pages

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Anatomy of Genres (ISBN-13: 9780374539221 and ISBN-10: 0374539227), written by authors John Truby, was published by Picador Paper in 2022. With an overall rating of 4.3 stars, it's a notable title among other Writing (Writing, Research & Publishing Guides) books. You can easily purchase or rent Anatomy of Genres (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Writing books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $3.65.

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“If you're ready to graduate from the boy-meets-girl league of screenwriting, meet John Truby...[His lessons draw] epiphanies that make you see the contours of your psyche as sharply as your script.” ―LA Weekly
A guide to understanding the major genres of the story world by the legendary writing teacher and author of The Anatomy of Story, John Truby.
Most people think genres are simply categories on Netflix or Amazon that provide a helpful guide to making entertainment choices. Most people are wrong. Genre stories aren’t just a small subset of the films, video games, TV shows, and books that people consume. They are the all-stars of the entertainment world, comprising the vast majority of popular stories worldwide. That’s why businesses―movie studios, production companies, video game studios, and publishing houses―buy and sell them. Writers who want to succeed professionally must write the stories these businesses want to buy. Simply put, the storytelling game is won by mastering the structure of genres.
The Anatomy of Genres: How Story Forms Explain the Way the World Works is the legendary writing teacher John Truby’s step-by-step guide to understanding and using the basic building blocks of the story world. He details the three ironclad rules of successful genre writing, and analyzes more than a dozen major genres and the essential plot events, or “beats,” that define each of them. As he shows, the ability to combine these beats in the right way is what separates stories that sell from those that don’t. Truby also reveals how a single story can combine elements of different genres, and how the best writers use this technique to craft unforgettable stories that stand out from the crowd.
Just as Truby’s first book, The Anatomy of Story, changed the way writers develop stories, The Anatomy of Genres will enhance their quality and expand the impact they have on the world.

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