Crafting Your Story Spine Using Literal and Essential Wants & Needs

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I have a story I’ve been noodling on for quite a few years. I’ve toyed with whether it should be a novel or a screenplay—probably both. Hopefully both. Here’s the premise: five friends in their 30s smoke recently legalized marijuana at their monthly book club meeting, hoping to find direction for the next chapter of… Read more »

Hamilton: Metaphor and Scene Analysis

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Hamilton as Metaphor Scene Analysis

Season Three Preview

Writers' Room Podcast

Ever since the Story Grid Editor Roundtable podcast started three years ago, we’ve been asked to apply the Story Grid method to a novel. Well, this is it! This season on the Story Grid Writers’ Room podcast, Leslie and Valerie are doing a full Story Grid macro analysis of A Wizard of Earthsea by… Read more »

Gone Girl – Key Takeaways

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Stay tuned to discover the key takeaways from our deep study of Gillian Flynn’s 2012 novel, Gone Girl. Find out what we’ve learned by applying Story Grid’s Editor’s Six Core Questions and breaking down each quadrant of this compelling Psychological Thriller. This season we’ve done a full macro analysis of Gone Girl, the 2012… Read more »

Worldview and the YA/MG Genre

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For the past few years, Young Adult (YA) and Middle Grade (MG) has been extremely popular beyond their “normal” target audience. With the success of Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, the Hunger Games, and the Divergent series, more and more authors are turning to teen and children’s literature and trying to write one. Children and teen… Read more »

Gone Girl – Ending Payoff

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Wonder how to deliver a powerful and satisfying finish to your story? On the Story Grid Writer’s Room podcast this week, Valerie and Leslie analyze the ending payoff of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl to unpack what makes this story work so well. The Story Grid Writer’s Room is a show dedicated to offering a practical… Read more »

Phase Shifting: The Story Grid Universe in 2021

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A year ago, in January 2020, Story Grid Publishing released its first title, appropriately titled The Story Grid Universe. You can download and read it for free here. The Story Grid Universe was the first title of seventeen we put into the collective cultural soup last year. Those titles reflect the Story Grid Guild and… Read more »

Gone Girl – Middle Build Two

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Feeling stuck in the middle of your story? This week we analyze the middle build Two quadrant of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl to unpack what makes this story work so well. The Story Grid Writer’s Room is a show dedicated to offering a practical approach to the Story Grid method so you can put it… Read more »

The Heroic Journey 2.0 of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

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There has been a lot of talk around Story Grid lately about the Heroic Journey 2.0. If you’ve missed out on the conversations, I recommend starting with Shawn’s explanation on the podcast, which you can find here, here, and here, and The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien, a Story Grid Masterwork Analysis Guide, which you can… Read more »

Gone Girl – Middle Build 1

Writers' Room Podcast

How can you keep readers turning pages through the middle build of your story? On the Story Grid Writer’s Room podcast this week, we find out by analyzing the middle build 1 quadrant of Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl. The Story Grid Writer’s Room is a show dedicated to offering a practical approach to the… Read more »

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Crafting Your Story Spine Using Literal and Essential Wants & Needs

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Hamilton: Metaphor and Scene Analysis

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Season Three Preview

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Gone Girl – Key Takeaways

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Worldview and the YA/MG Genre

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Gone Girl – Ending Payoff

Writers' Room Podcast

Phase Shifting: The Story Grid Universe in 2021

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Gone Girl – Middle Build Two

Writers' Room Podcast

The Heroic Journey 2.0 of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

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Gone Girl – Middle Build 1

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