John Truby, a world-famous Hollywood screenwriter and teacher, is called the “script doctor” who can “cure” even the most hopeless text. Among his students are screenwriters, directors and producers of such famous films as “Pirates of the Caribbean”, “X-Men”, “Shrek”, and many others. Truby presents the creation of a story as a fascinating process, a kind of construction kit in which every detail has its own place, and the screenwriter’s task is to accurately select the right detail and find its place in a coherent plot mechanism. The book equips us with precise optics, allowing us to see clear patterns through the fog of an intuitive search for plot moves and, guided by them, achieve the goal of coming up with a great story.