Million-Dollar Screenwriting: Introduction to the 10 Story Types

They say there are only 10 types of stories in this world, and they are right! Every story you read, watch or dream up is one—or a COMBINATION—of these ten story types. Learn the defining features of each story type so that you can begin to recognize what makes each one unique and apply the structural concepts to your own stories!



These broad templates will help you when the muse isn’t around, or when you’re all written out, or when you’re staring at your computer screen wondering, “What next?” While this book isn’t exactly “paint-by-numbers” type of instruction (and where would be the fun in that anyway?), it can offer you some goalposts to shoot for as you work through your script using the Mini-Movie Method, or simply enrich your understanding of the underlying structural foundations of story.