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John Truby has written and taught story structure for film, tv and novel for decades. His book is very accessible and deeply informative. He has software, audio recordings of his genre classes (thriller, detective, romance, horror, etc.). Buy the book. Read it. That's a heck of a start. Write following Truby's suggestion of figuring out who's the Main Character, what does she want? Who stands in her way perfectly able to compete over the Hero's desired outcome. Who are the minor characters? How do they interact? Read Truby. Do the chapter exercises. Write.

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