Guild 2020

Week of April 6 – Meet My Significant Other

Weekly Sprints

This week, Shawn has assigned a “Meet my significant other” scene with direct confrontation. Assignment Writing Sprint Assignment – PDF Sample Scene from the 1976 film Marathon Man, based on the novel of the same name by William Goldman, published in 1974.

Week of March 30 – Job Interview Scene

Weekly Sprints

This week, we’re studying a job interview scene with embedded free indirect style from the point of view of the protagonist. Assignment Writing Sprint Assignment – PDF Sample Scene – PDF Shawn Reviews the Assignment (MP3) Q&A with Shawn (MP3)

Ethan Frome

Micro Scene Analysis

Download March’s scene from Ethan Frome (blank copy) Download March’s scene from Ethan Frome (analyzed copy)

Week of March 23 – Threshold Guardian

Weekly Sprints

For this week we are focusing on the Threshold Guardian scene. Here is this week’s writing assignment from Shawn: Assignment Week #1 Q&A with Shawn Coyne – MP3 AudioDownload

Nonfiction

Live Training

Call Recording — Shawn and Tim are joined by Story Grid Certified Editors, Leslie Watts and Shelley Sperry, to discuss The Tipping Point Masterwork Guide and their Story Grid Beat, What’s the big idea?. As always, Shawn also answers your questions about the Story Grid method and writing-related topics.

What’s the big idea?: Nonfiction Condensed (Leslie Watts and Shelley Sperry)

Books

MOBI – Kindle EPUB – Nook, Kobo etc PDF – All Devices MP3 – Audiobook

The Tipping Point, by Malcolm Gladwell: A Story Grid Masterworks Analysis Guide (Leslie Watts and Shelley Sperry)

Books

MOBI – Kindle EPUB – Nook, Kobo etc PDF – All Devices

Scene Analysis – 2020 Schedule

Micro Scene Analysis

The scenes that we’ll analyze during the live scene analysis calls will come from the following novels. It’s not necessary to have read the novel prior to the training call with our Story Grid Certified Editors, however, we can’t promise there won’t be spoilers given during the calls! We do recommend you read each scene… Read more »