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A review by chloefrizzle
The Anatomy of Story: 22 Steps to Becoming a Master Storyteller by John Truby
1.0
The way this author uses exclusively default-male pronouns is gross. Oh, you're a writer? Must be a man.
This book spends pages lecturing about the importance of metaphor and underlying ideas. How the real power of stories comes from the lessons inside of them. Then, this book pivots to telling you to pick a compelling protagonist, one that uses he/him pronouns, of course. Yikes.
The absolute GALL of this author to pretend to care about the underlying message, then have the underlying message of his book be blatant sexism?!?! I am utterly enraged. Why is this book so popular? Because I do not trust a word this author writes after the putrid mess that is not bothering to consider the existence of women and non-binary people.
This book spends pages lecturing about the importance of metaphor and underlying ideas. How the real power of stories comes from the lessons inside of them. Then, this book pivots to telling you to pick a compelling protagonist, one that uses he/him pronouns, of course. Yikes.
The absolute GALL of this author to pretend to care about the underlying message, then have the underlying message of his book be blatant sexism?!?! I am utterly enraged. Why is this book so popular? Because I do not trust a word this author writes after the putrid mess that is not bothering to consider the existence of women and non-binary people.