{"id":86,"date":"2010-08-31T04:41:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-31T09:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/?p=86"},"modified":"2010-08-31T04:41:00","modified_gmt":"2010-08-31T09:41:00","slug":"anatomy-of-story","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/k-tock.com\/?p=86","title":{"rendered":"Anatomy of Story"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I finished John Truby&#8217;s <em>Anatomy of Story<\/em> yesterday. It is quite a different read than <em>Save the Cat!<\/em> but still a very informative and valuable read. It doesn&#8217;t have the same conversational style or Blake&#8217;s humour, but it does offer a very indepth look at story and goes into some of the nuts-and-bolts of story construction that Blake only alludes to in his books.<\/p>\n<p>I love Blake&#8217;s approach to creating a story, but I&nbsp;will definitely be incorporating some of Truby&#8217;s wisdom into my own stories, particularly the&nbsp;character and symbol webs. I would definitely recommend <em>Anatomy of Story<\/em> be read by anyone intent on writing for film or TV. I will post further on the my thoughts about <em>Anatomy of Story<\/em>, but I will read my other new tome, <em>The Moral Premise<\/em>, first and then combine the different ideas into a unified approach to structuring stories for the silver screen.<\/p>\n<p>Also coming soon is my beat sheet for <em>Inception<\/em>. It is a mind-blowingly cool movie and hits all the beats &#8211; Christopher Nolan,&nbsp;Blake would be so proud of you!!!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I finished John Truby&#8217;s Anatomy of Story yesterday. It is quite a different read than Save the Cat! but still a very informative and valuable read. 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