Every Story Starts Here

The free Fundamentals course is the foundation of the whole Tale Spinning method. Sign up and the Story Type Guide arrives in your inbox right away; the course follows as a short series of emails.

What’s inside the free course

  • The four story types, and how to tell which one you’re writing.
  • Why character arc and plot are the same thing, not two separate jobs.
  • How moral transformation drives structure, beat by beat.
  • Hero and Villain Protagonists, and when to use each.
  • It works in any medium: novel, screenplay, game, comic, or stage play.

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Look, I know I'm going to be the bad guy on this one, but I just want to say the last six days have been the best six days of probably my whole life.
“Look, I know I'm going to be the bad guy on this one, but I just want to say the last six days have been the best six days of probably my whole life.” — The Royal Tenenbaums (wr. Anderson & Wilson, dir. Anderson, 2001)

Go deeper: the Kind Comedy course

When you’re ready to build a full story with the method, the Kind Comedy course takes one story type all the way down: every beat, every test, worked through on real films.

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