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Difficult to follow
It's not a step by step method. I read the whole thing and still don't really know how to follow the "3 story method" or even why it's called that. The first few chapters felt like filler and the last 40% of the book is appendices. There is one big chunk that's just a direct pull from a scientific article on stimulus/response. It's got a couple of good ideas, like the Pixar Pitch, but you can Google that. It didn't keep my interest or provide all that much useful information. It just quotes better books like On Writing by Stephen King, Immediate Fiction by Jerry Cleaver, and others. Overall, I finished the book more confused than when I started. You mileage may vary, but I'm returning it.
