How I Use Truby To Plot My Novels

And why his methods changed the course of my career.

One of the questions that I get asked most often, on this forum and in real life, is “How do you use John Truby to plot your novels?”

It’s no secret that I am an evangelist for his methods. A friend recommended his book, The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller, shortly after it was published in 2007. As luck would have it, I’d j…