Truby’s 22 Storytelling Steps
John Truby’s 22 steps for storytelling are a genuinely worthwhile journey for anyone interested in strengthening the structure of their fiction or screenplay. I’m working through the process right now, and feel as if I’m laying the block foundation, framing in the walls, building the joists of a sturdy structure.
For me, writing fiction has never felt so much like a skill before.
In my work on the novel I believe is dead, I wrote by instinct, groping ahead, trying to figure out as I went what would happen to the characters I’d imagined. Now, I’m imagining characters in relationship to each other and a scenario. The difference is substantial.
I’ve always credited writers of powerful stories with some kind of inate genius. Now it seems they were, above all, good architects.