Storytelling is a complex craft that can be learned. Yet most classes and books on the market teach only a superficial approach to screenwriting and writing novels. Great storytelling is more difficult than brain surgery, and requires an organic approach that involves learning how to map your unique hero's journey in a very detailed way.
Whether you work best learning visually, audibly, interactively, or a combination of all 3 styles we have the classes for beginners and seasoned writers alike. So move past the "one size fits all" formula of storytelling and graduate to writing professionally with techniques worthy of your story. |
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WRITING PROGRAMS
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| Writer's Film School Diploma |
Cinema Diploma |
Great Screenwriting Bundle |
TV Diploma |
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| Great Screenwriting Audio |
Action Story |
Comedy |
Detective,
Crime Story
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Horror,
Fantasy
& Sci-Fi |
Love Story |
Masterpiece |
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| Memoir Writing |
Myth |
Story Development |
Sit-Com
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Dramatic Television |
ONLINE CLASSES |
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| Great Screenwriting |
Action |
Advanced |
Comedy |
Crime |
Detective |
Fantasy |
Horror |
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| Love |
Memoir |
Myth |
Sci-Fi |
Sitcom |
Thriller |
TV Drama |
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SCREENWRITING COURSES
For more than three decades, John Truby has taught his screenwriting courses to 30,000 plus students worldwide. Providing the knowledge and expertise he has applied as a consultant on over 1,000 movie scripts, Truby offers an approach to storytelling that has earned acclaim for his screenwriting courses and software from students and critics alike:
"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
Screenwriting Classes
From the writers, directors and producers of Shrek to Sleepless in Seattle to Star Wars, Truby's screenwriting courses have trained some of the top players in Hollywood today. Truby's audio and video screenwriting courses will teach you hundreds of screenwriting techniques that will allow you to compete with the best.
Truby's 14 hour audio courses and 8 hour video courses focus on the 22 building blocks of every script. These screenwriting courses will take you from beginning to end in the development process of your script idea.
"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
Screenwriting Course Software
Truby's Blockbuster screenwriting course software allows students to learn the art of developing ideas into fully realized, professionally structured scripts right at home. Based on a user interface that teaches as you write, Truby's Blockbuster screenwriting course software shows you the deep structural weaknesses that are likely to be in your script and takes you through the ideal order for fixing them.
Truby's Blockbuster software package is the only screenwriting course program of its kind to focus in on writing for specific genres. With add-ons for action, comedy, horror and every genre of screenwriting, Blockbuster can be tailored to fit exactly the style of movie you're working on.
"Among the legions of screenplay guru devotees, few would deny that John Truby is the most cutting edge of the lot. For success, Truby and his software program is a match made in screenwriting heaven... No, Blockbuster will not solve all of writing's perennial ills, but it does bring the cure several giant steps closer."
Wade Major, Entertainment Today
"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
"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
