Are you familiar with Truby's Writers Studio online classes?
These classes have trained the writers, directors, or producers of some of Hollywood's biggest Blockbusters including
The Mask of Zorro,
The Negotiator,
Outbreak,
Sleepless in Seattle,
Scream,
Star Wars and many, many more.
A Truby Online Class takes you step-by-step through the storytelling process, from one-line idea to final script, so that you can write an excellent work of fiction. In each of the lessons, you will first study the material and then complete the appropriate writing exercise.
Send your written responses to the exercises to
trubystudio@aol.com for comprehensive feedback from your story mentor, working with John Truby. Then proceed to the next lesson. John Truby has designed the lessons in the order that will produce your best work in the shortest amount of time. However, you are free to take the lessons in any order you wish.
You will push your idea through premise, characters, story world, and structure until you have a polished script to take to an agent or production company.
Choose from any of our 8 week genre courses or the Great Screenwriting 12 week course.
Great Screenwriting 
This flagship class of the Truby's Writers Studio, taken by over 30,000 students worldwide, wins awards year after year as the best writing class in America. Don't miss this rare opportunity to master your craft with the one on one guidance of a Truby story mentor.
Action 
Action is the epic hero, the one who changes a nation, who saves the day, no matter how strong the enemy. The best action stories have tricky plots, complex characters and a profound effect on the audience.
Advanced (Masterpiece) 
Advanced screenwriting means creating contradictory and complex characters, inventing your own story structures, tracking the most twisted moral arcs, and expressing the big themes without preaching. The Advanced Screenwriting Online Class is filled with the most detailed professional techniques needed to write a truly great script.
Comedy 
Comedy is the single most successful story form. But one reason comedy is so difficult is that it has at least eight different structures, each with very different story beats.
Crime 
The Crime Online Class will help you become a topnotch crime writer by helping you build unique heroes, criminals, and crime sequences, as well as showing you the special story beats of every crime story.
Detective 
There have been thousands of detective stories, but with our Detective Online Class you can write an original one that will get you noticed. This form is about the unending search for truth, the struggle to claw through the facades, lies and misdirection of the master criminal.
Fantasy 
Fantasy is an extremely popular genre worldwide, and not just with kids. It's the form that makes the audience feel terrific, where suddenly everything seems possible. Fantasy allows us to break free not just from physical slavery or professional drudgery but also from a stiffness of the mind and a death of the spirit.
Horror 
Horror is a perennial favorite with audiences, and with our Horror Online Class you can write a horror story that's NOT like everyone else's. The Horror story can be very predictable. Monster chases, hero flees. But your job is to get inside the form so you can do something different that blows people away.
Love 
Love is the only genre where you need two equally well-defined main characters. It has a plot where surprise must come out of intimacy. And it has a plot that should naturally take only ten minutes. With Truby's Love Story Online Class you'll express your love story to the audience with maximum power.
Memoir-True Story 
Memoir-True Story is a hot genre for books and films right now. But it is a surprisingly difficult story form to do well, and most writers lack the techniques they need to bring their unique story to life. In John Truby's Memoir-True Story Online Class you will learn the simple but powerful "10-10-10 System" that will turn your personal vignettes into a story with universal appeal.
Myth 
Myths show us archetypal characters and life changes that transcend cultures. And the myth form is the basis of more blockbuster films and novels than any other genre by far. The trick is to use one of the ten new myth forms that will change popular storytelling for the next two decades.
Science Fiction 
The most creative of all story forms poses several unique challenges. But our Science Fiction Online Class shows you how to surmount every one.
Sitcom 
The best comedy writing in the entertainment industry is done on sitcoms. But sitcoms are NOT about stringing together a lot of jokes. They are comic short stories, and they have a unique, highly structured form. The trick is knowing the sitcom story structures that actually produce the laughs, writing comedy from character, and playing with the ongoing web of comic oppositions. Our Sitcom Online Class covers all the tools and techniques for writing sitcoms professionally.
Thriller 
Thriller is one of the most popular genres because it combines the criminality and surprise of the detective with the danger and pressure of horror. A good thriller puts the hero in trouble early and never lets up. But thrillers can be tricky because you have to create a lot of plot in a small space with just a few characters. John Truby's Thriller Online Class is specially designed to help you write something unique in this popular but often predictable genre.
TV Drama 
Year in, year out, the best dramatic writing in America is found on television. But this medium is complex, with hit shows in all the major genres. A successful TV writer must know the beats of many genres, as well as how to craft stories with the best in the business. Our TV Drama Online Class is filled with all the techniques you need to know to compete with the finest writers of TV Drama.
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