The Taylor Sheridan Effect

What Every Writer Can Learn from a Modern TV's Master Storyteller

In a landscape crowded with premium television, Taylor Sheridan's work stands apart with its raw authenticity, morally complex characters, and storytelling that feels both timeless and urgently contemporary. 

From "Yellowstone" to "Lioness," Sheridan has mastered a distinctive approach that keeps viewers coming back season after season. But what can novelists and fiction writers learn from his techniques? As it turns out, quite a lot.

Taylor Sheridan has redefined modern storytelling. In Taylor Sheridan Techniques, we break down his techniques into practical, learnable skills and adapt them to any genre!

 A 5 Day Study Of Taylor Sheridan's Storytelling Techniques

What You Will Learn

Learn more than 18 techniques Taylor Sheridan uses, and how to adopt his storytelling power into your own writing. Weekly and monthly guidelines, practical writing exercises, and comprehensive studies are included.

  • Character development that drives the story
  • Dialogue that reveals power dynamics
  • Scene construction that builds tension
  • Conflict creation that sustains narratives
Complete reference guide to Sheridan's storytelling techniques

Bonus Extras

Complete reference guide to Sheridan's storytelling techniques to take away and continue learning how to apply his techniques into your own stories.

Learn the principles behind successful series like Yellowstone, 1923, and Wind River through analysis and practical application. We will examine Taylor Sheridan's storytelling techniques through publicly available works.

This study is NOT affiliated with or endorsed by Taylor Sheridan or Paramount.

Why This Taylor Sheridan Study?

Why This Taylor Sheridan Study?

You'll discover how to:

  • Create complex, believable characters
  • Build sustainable story conflicts
  • Craft dialogue that carries power
  • Develop scenes that grip audiences
  • Write stories that last
  • Screenwriters: who want to create a compelling series that sells to producers because of its bingeworthy elements.
  • Authors: who want to use the same bingeworthy elements seen in series that audience binge to use in their novels
  • Writers: who are planning a series and want to learn how to ensure it sells to an agent or publisher because of its bingeworthy elements.

Authors, writers and screenwriters can all learn from the expertise Taylor Sheridan infuses into his bingeworthy series!

Discover the storytelling secrets behind shows like Yellowstone, 1923, and Mayor of Kingstown in this intensive 5-day workshop. Learn how to craft compelling characters, build sustainable tension, and create stories that resonate with modern audiences.

Taylor Sheridan is a master at implementing fundamental storytelling principles. He uses these techniques across all his works and maintains their use even as he crosses genres. He also applies classic techniques to contemporary settings, which makes traditional storytelling principles feel fresh and shows how timeless methods work in current modern storytelling. In his 'Systematic Approach,' he effectively combines multiple techniques to build sustainable story engines, thus creating repeatable success patterns.

The key insight is how Sheridan's 15 techniques support and amplify each other, creating a rich, multi-layered storytelling approach that can be adapted to any genre or setting.

These 18 storytelling techniques really highlight Sheridan's mastery of moral ambiguity and complex character development. When combined with all the techniques, they create his distinctive storytelling approach.

You will learn:

  • 18 different comprehensive storytelling techniques that Taylor Sheridan uses in his various successful TV series.
  • Each technique provides examples from a study of different Taylor Sheridan films and TV series.
  • Sheridan's impact on television has been transformative.
  • How "Yellowstone" (2018-present) not only revitalized the Western genre but also became a cultural phenomenon
  • How these techniques spawned multiple successful prequels, including "1883" and "1923".
  • These techniques demonstrate his ability to apply his storytelling techniques across diverse genres.
  • Scene Construction using these 15 different techniques with scene templates.
  • How to use these techniques in scripts and novels
  • How to adapt these storytelling principles into your own stories.
  • How to weave these techniques into different genres.
  • Master 'Keys' and 'Mantras' for expanded learning.

This Boot Camp is NOT affiliated with or endorsed by Taylor Sheridan or Paramount.