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Writing Tips: The Anatomy Of Genres With John Truby

The Creative Penn Podcast For Writers

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How to Write Cross Summer?

The most successful stories in every medium are mixed of two to four genres. Choose a primary genre because that gives you your main hero, opponent and desire line. Then what you do is add the beats from the other genres, but only when they work with the main genre.

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