The Story Solution

Your life is a story whether you're writing it or not. The Story Solution shows you how to take the pen.

Sean Platt and Johnny B. Truant have spent more than a decade building worlds, plotting story arcs, and shaping characters readers can't put down. They've written more than a hundred novels between them. They've taught hundreds of authors how to do the same.

Now they're turning the toolkit they use to build fiction on the only story that actually matters: yours.

Inside, you'll learn how to:

•Treat your life like a story you're writing, not one happening to you
•Find your narrative. The through-line that makes your choices feel like choices, not drift.
•Build your character the way novelists build theirs: deliberately, with stakes
•Identify your antagonists and what they want, so you can stop being surprised by them
•Plot your acts. Including the ones you keep wanting to skip.
•Edit ruthlessly when the story you've been telling yourself stops serving you

If you've ever felt like life was happening to you, The Story Solution hands you the pen.

Pair with Write. Publish. Repeat. and The Fiction Formula if you want to use these tools on the page. The Story Solution uses them on the life behind the page.

Includes the free Story Solution Workbook with 13 exercises plus Your Story Blueprint, the Genre Therapy worksheet, the Plot Points Beats Sheet, and the Theme Compass. Together they turn the book into a working plan for your own story.

Find your narrative. Transform your life. The Story Solution.