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John Truby is a screenwriter, director, and screenwriting teacher who has consulted on over 1,000 film scripts over three decades. He is critical of Syd Field's three-act paradigm and instead created his own 22-step outline. Truby's book "The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller" was published in 2007. He was also the co-writer and story consultant on the Disney/BBC film "African Cats."

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John Truby is a screenwriter, director, and screenwriting teacher who has consulted on over 1,000 film scripts over three decades. He is critical of Syd Field's three-act paradigm and instead created his own 22-step outline. Truby's book "The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller" was published in 2007. He was also the co-writer and story consultant on the Disney/BBC film "African Cats."

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John Truby

John Truby (born 1952) is a screenwriter, director and


screenwriting teacher.[1] He has served as a consultant
on over 1,000 lm scripts over the past three decades,
and is also known for the screenwriting software program
Blockbuster (originally Storyline Pro).
Truby argues that most teachers of screenwriting emphasize inner transformation of the characters but not the
moral eect their actions have on others. He is critical of
Syd Fields three-act Paradigm and has instead crafted
his own 22-step outline. Trubys rst book The Anatomy
of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller was
published in October, 2007 by Faber and Faber.[2]
Truby is the co-writer and story consultant on the recent
Disney/BBC lm African Cats.[3]

References

[1] Ward, Lewis. Interview: John Truby on Screenwriting


and Breaking In. Script Magazine. Archived from the
original on 2007-07-02. Retrieved 2007-07-31.
[2] The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master
Storyteller Archived 31 December 2010 at WebCite
[3] John Truby at the Internet Movie Database

External links
Screenwriting - Software, Classes and Workshops
from John Truby

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