Then it helps you determine the best Genre for your story, which is something beginners often fail to nail down. Next is attention to building three-dimensional Characters, help with Scene Writing, and even tips on the all too crucial Rewrite, with fine advice on how to fix problems in your script. Truby offers 32 Story Examples with thorough analysis of films like Star Wars, Forrest Gump, and Home Alone. He analyzes storytelling masters with the keen eye of a teacher who understands storytelling as well as screenwriters. In five of the Top Ten grossing movies, Truby says, the Hero is a rogue, charmer or trickster.
Writers have an infinite variety of potential main characters.
But the most popular is the trickster. The trickster is not without faults. But these faults tend to be easily excused, because the trickster is so fun. The trickster character has been represented in the lore of the storytelling of Earth since time immemorable. The Coyote figure of the Native Americans of the Southwest is a trickster, and so is The Fool in the Tarot deck.