3.9ish?

I was recommended this book by a favorite Authortuber of mine and am glad I finally finished it. This book has a very light conversationalist tone while sharing gems about how story structure works. I found the tone at times to be too unserious but I liked that the ideas shared were a mix of well known concepts (The Hero’s Journey, The 3 Act structure) and new concepts that the author has ideated in simple terms . In my head I drew comparisons to Save The Cat, Hero’s Journey, and other structures I’ve studied.
Bonus for providing worksheet templates, and drawing references to modern movies to support their evidence.

I think a lot of the advice was very useful but I think a drawback could be that some concepts that the author ideated himself are hard to put into practice. For example why does the protagonist need to have both masculine and feminine traits to be “complete”? What logic is there behind that? Would’ve liked more on that. Plus some minor typos in this book. But I think this didn’t detract too much from the overall message. The one thing I’ll take away is in order to become one of the Greats, you need to focus on telling a Good Story, not just writing “well”. And all Good Stories have structure no matter what the likes of Stephen King or other pantsers say. I’d recommend this book to any writer after reading the classic story structure books.