TRUBY'S GREAT SCREENWRITING course has trained the writers, directors, or producers of Shrek, Planet of the Apes, Flamingo Rising, The Negotiator, Inspector Gadget, Outbreak, Sleepless in Seattle, The Addams Family, Beetlejuice, Nightmare on Elm Street, Scream, Kiss of the Spider Woman, Back to School, Rambling Rose, Star Wars and many more. How about you?

Key point: top professionals use fundamentally different tools than amateur writers. These techniques include everything from grand story strategy to scene sequencing to setting up and paying off scene patterns to blending dialogue.

Yet most books and courses on screenwriting in today's market teach a simple one-size-fits-all approach useful only by beginners. Isn't it time you abandon obsolete script theories and step up to the professional ranks?

This course will teach you literally hundreds of professional techniques that will allow you to compete with the best. This flagship class of the Truby's Writers Studio, taken by over 20,000 students worldwide, wins awards year after year as the best writing class in America. Don't miss this rare opportunity to master your craft.

FEATURES:  
• 22 Building Blocks of every great script 
• Creating the single driving force 
• 3 Variations to classic structure and how to tell which is right for you 
• 7 steps to a great premise  
• 4 requirements of a good hero  
• 5 major character changes   
• 4 keys to the perfect opponent 
• The secret to creating a strong middle  
• Building the reveals 
• How to write 3-track dialogue 
• Secrets of building the scene 

Audio, 14 hours		Video, 8 hours
No. P201		No. P601
Price $189		Price $129

BONUS:
Great Screenwriting Bundle 
Buy Great Screenwriting, get a Genre Course at 1/2 price  

GREAT SCREENWRITING REVIEWS: 
"I think of all of them Truby's the best... his stuff cuts the deepest, and allows you to develop the most detailed structure and outline of any of the teaching methods." 
Larry Wilson, co-writer Beetlejuice, The Addams Family - The Writer's Guild Journal  

"Truby's Story Structure Class is a totally new system.... a course that allows a writer to succeed in the fiercely competitive climate of Hollywood."  
American Film Institute Magazine 

"A veritable bible for screenwriters." 
Backstage 

"If you're ready to graduate from the boy-meets-girl league of screenwriting, meet John Truby...(His course draws) epiphanies that make you see the contours of your psyche as sharply as your script."  
LA Weekly 

"John Truby's Story Structure Course is a thoroughly detailed and impeccably presented education in the anatomy and psychology of any good story... an invaluable road map that I would recommend to any serious writer. 
Jeff Arch, Sleepless in Seattle

"Truby's 22 Steps, based on a moral understanding of the world, makes you not only a better writer but a better person." 
Richard Kramer, Now and Again, My So-Called Life, thirtysomething

"Truby's course is invaluable for anyone who wants to be a professional screenwriter." 
John Flynn, Director of Best Seller, Rolling Thunder

"This course is so good I took it twice." 
Ralph Winter, producer Planet of the Apes, Inspector Gadget, Star Trek IV, VI 

"Your Story Structure seminar did me well; the following year I won UCLA's Diane Thomas Award, which was judged by Steven Spielberg. When novice screenwriters ask me what course, book, or study guide influenced me the most, I tell them it was your course. I filled an entire notebook with notes and was greatly impressed by your teaching, organization, and sharp analyses... I have you to thank for helping me win a very prestigious, important award that changed my life." 
Susan Vaughn, writer

"I've taken dozens of writing classes, workshops, and seminars. None of them has been as helpful as Truby's Story Structure Class. It's well-organized, entertaining and practical. I recommend if for everyone who works - or wants to work - in the film industry." 
Robert Newcombe, recently sold his first script to Disney

"I spent 4 years and $24,000 at film school and learned more in 24 hours of the Truby Story Structure Course." 
Alex Kustonovich, Writer

"Just wanted to let you know that as a result of your products I wrote a script, "Route 52", good enough for Aaron Spelling and David Permut to buy." 
Sidney Lee, screenwriter

"My screenplay came in 6th place out of 13,000 entries.... I learned by ordering your enlightening Screenwriting Course and specific genre cassette tapes, including your fantastic BLOCKBUSTER program."  
James R. Crape, Writers Digest Screenwriting Competition  

"Fabulous course - invaluable. Lets you know what you really need to write, structure, and analyze a film story. Complete, advanced point of view."  
Diana Brewer, TV Development Lorimar 

"I'm now using what I've learned as a yardstick to measure all the scripts I'm evaluating. Thanks!"  
Linda Buzzell, Vice President, Development Sascha Schneider Productions