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By combining 10 main genres and 36 subgenres with a triple-layer genre-blending approach, StoryTricks® empowers you to put a fresh spin on audience expectations.
What sets your original work apart from everyone else’s? With millions of great stories out there, finding a new approach to genre blending can be challenging. Fortunately, the Genres deck provides all the tools and tricks you need to make it happen every time.
Every genre comes with its own must-haves, which can work in your favour rather than being obstacles to overcome in your story.
Genres are well-defined and have generated endless research. One genre per card gives you all the essential information you need to start writing.
Studios understand, speak, and buy genres, so mastering the language of genres is essential for writing and selling your work.
The Genres Deck contains 51 tutorial cards that help you navigate the universal storytelling landscape with specific elements that keep your audience engaged, even when you lead them off the beaten path.
1. GENRE BLENDING
There’s a secret sauce for cooking up original stories in time-worn pots. We call it Genre-blending, where main genres serve as the pots and genre modifiers as the ingredients.
Tutorial Cards (5): Main Genres & Genres Modifiers, The Genre Pitch, Story World Genre, Storyline Genre, Perceived Genre
2. MAIN GENRES
Classic genres are etched in our collective culture and deeply rooted in the subconscious because they address some of our brain’s most pressing needs. Who are we to deny those answers? Main genres are statistically the most successful at the box office, and you can use them as a goal or a starting point—or face the cost of avoiding them.
Tutorial Cards (10) : Action, Adventure, Thriller, Drama, Comedy, Horror, Sci-Fi, Fantasy, Crime, Mystery
3. GENRE MODIFIERS
Refining a main genre and combining genre modifiers for more complex storytelling are not decisions to be made on the fly. Whether you’re tailoring your story to a specific niche, aiming to write the next blockbuster, or targeting specific audience expectations, not all roads lead to Rome. Don’t start writing without our essential genre-mapping guide.
Tutorial Cards (36) : History, Romance, Buddy, Disaster, Saga, War & Military, Procedural, Biography, Exploitation, Family, Psychological, Neo Noir, Political, Punk, Young Adult, Epic, Pastiche, Coming of Age, Social, Mature, Gothic, Road Trip, Western, Speculative, Allegory, Vigilante, Prison, Spy, Heist, Sports, Martial Arts, Revenge, Invasion, Superhero, Conspiracy, Survival
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HOW TO USE?
Stick your handwritten notes directly on the cards. You can map your entire story and characters using standard-sized sticky notes that are easy to refine, scratch, and replace. Not enough physical space to display them all at once? You don’t have to. Simply store your annotated decks in their boxes and browse through them wherever you want.
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Yes. While StoryTricks has been crafted to guide you through your entire creative process, the decks can also be used alone to focus on specific parts of your story. In a few cases, a card may refer to another deck, but it won’t hinder your progress.
Each deck contains between 51 and 52 cards. The first card serves as an introduction and outlines the main sections of the deck.
The dimensions of the cards are 126 mm x 89 mm, or 5 in x 3.5 in. Closer to tarot cards than playing cards, they allow you to put sticky notes on them.
The cards are numbered to be followed in order and to reference specific ones when needed. There are no more than 52 cards per deck. We add hundreds to differentiate the cards between each deck. Framing cards are numbered 1xx and 2xx, Genres cards are 3xx, Characters cards are 4xx, Structure cards are 5xx and 6xx, and Empathy cards are 7xx.
Each StoryTricks deck is available for sale as a PDF or a Miro template by default. When you buy a deck of cards, you automatically receive both the PDF version and the Miro template for free.
The Miro templates are online whiteboards available on Miro. Each template contains the front and back of every card from a deck. The cards are arranged by sections with additional guidance and a video tutorial (TalkTrack). Right after your purchase, you’ll receive a link to the template by email. The boards are in read-only mode. Just duplicate the board to your Miro account to start working.
The PDF versions are digital versions of the decks that you can download or browse online after your purchase. The PDF files are in landscape format, with the front and back of the cards displayed side-by-side.
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