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John Wick: Story Grid Analysis
Episode 283: Line Edits: Putting the Final Touches on Eye Witness
Episode 282: Final Edits of a Short Story: Beat Construction and 624 Analysis
Episode 281: Does Tim Actually Get It Right? How to Nail the Narrative Device
Episode 280: How to Connect with Characters: Finding the Motivation and Shadow in Yourself
Episode 279: Writing or Just Pretending? When there is Zero Flow and Everything is $h*t
Episode 278: Conflict and Emotional Connection: Every Beat, Trope, and Scene Must Have These
Episode 277: Who's the Most Guilty Person in Your Story? Hero, Victim, and Villain - Part 2
Episode 275: Hero, Victim and Perpetrator: The Must-Have Relationships in Your Story
Episode 276: The Impact of a Story Theme: An Interview with Scott Mann and Randle Surles about the book Operation Pineapple Express
Episode 274: Truth in Fiction: How to Write and Develop Believable Characters
Episode 273: Narrative Device: This Affects Every Single Word You Write
Episode 272: Telling the Truth About Writing: Is this Podcast Worth Doing?
Episode 271: Writing Emotional Pain: How to Care About Your Protagonist
Episode 270: Getting the Protagonist Right: When and How to Switch the Main Character
Episode 269: Two Factor Problems: The Must-Have for Writing Captivating Stories
Episode 268: 624 Break Down: The Surprising Mistake in Tim's First Draft
Episode 267: First Draft Feedback: 3 Editors Give Honest Writing Analysis - Part 2
Episode 266: First Draft Feedback: 3 Editors Give Honest Writing Analysis - Part 1
Episode 265: How to Plan a Short Story Based on a Masterwork
Episode 264: Story Tropes - Building Blocks of Scenes
Episode 263: Beat Breakdown - Analyzing Writing Line-by-Line - Part 3
Episode 262: Beat Breakdown - Analyzing Writing Line-by-Line - Part 2
Episode 261: Beat Breakdown - Analyzing Writing Line-by-Line
Episode 260: 624 Review + Trope and Beat Introduction
Episode 259: The Five Commandments of Storytelling - Part 3
Episode 258: The Five Commandments of Storytelling - Part 2
Episode 257: The Five Commandments of Storytelling - Part 1
Episode 256: What is happening in your story? (Part 2)
Episode 255: What is happening in your story? (Part 1)
Episode 254: Point of View - It's WAY more than 1st, 2nd, and 3rd
Episode 253: Narrative Device - The 3 Questions to Nail the Point of View of Your Story
Episode 252: The "What If" for Your Story
Episode 251: The Genre Five Leaf Clover
#250 - Two Sides to Every Story
#249 - The History of the Story Grid Universe
#248 - The Artist's Wants, Needs, and Desires
#247 - Backstory and an Avatar's Wants, Needs, and Desires
#246 - Crafting Story with Wants, Needs, and Desires
#245 - What are Objects of Desire?
#244 - How to use Expository Beats to generate words?
#243 - How to use Passive Beats to generate words?
#242 - How to Use Active Beats to Generate Words?
#241 - What is an Editor Brain vs Writer Brain?
#240 - How does the Story Grid Trinity apply at the macro level vs micro level?
#239 - Does the Trinity On-the-Surface mean External Genre?
#238 - What is happening with The Bell Jar?
#237 - How does the Story Grid Trinity apply to Global Internal Genres?
#236 - Can Story Grid improve on Masterworks?
#235 - What defines a Masterwork?
#234 - How to Write Dialogue (for Introverts)
#233 - Story Grid Trinity for Nonfiction
#232 - Quadrant 4 of Heroic Journey 2.0
#231 - Story Grid Trinity - Beyond the Surface
#230 - Story Grid Trinity - Above the Surface
#229 - Story Grid Trinity - On the Surface
#228 - The Story Grid Trinity
Quadrant 3 of the Heroic Journey 2.0
World-Building in the Heroic Journey 2.0
First Two Steps of the Heroic Journey 2.0
Introducing the Heroic Journey 2.0
Finishing the First Draft
Interview with Michael McClellan - Part 3
Interview with Michael McClellan - Part 2
Interview with Michael McClellan - Part 1
Chapter 24 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
Chapter 23 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
Chapter 22 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
Chapter 21 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
Chapter 20 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
Chapter 19 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
Chapter 18 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
Chapter 17 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
Chapter 16 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
Chapter 15 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
Chapter 14 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
Chapter 13 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
Chapter 12 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
Chapter 11 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
Chapter 10 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
Chapter 9 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
Chapter 8 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
Chapter 7 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
Chapter 6 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
Chapter 5 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
Chapter 4 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
Chapter 3 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
Chapter 2 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
Chapter 1 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
Intro - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
Scene 1, Book 2
Phere and COVID-19
Systems and Chaos in Your Novel
Planning Book 2 in a Trilogy
Which book should I write?
Planning the Hero, Victim and Villain
Introducing: Story Grid Showrunners Podcast
How to Start a New Novel
How to Analyze a Scene
What is a Contender Guide?
Story Grid Guild
Story Grid Publishing
What is wrong with publishing?
Making Big Idea Nonfiction Work
The Must-Haves of Big Idea Nonfiction
Breaking Down the Big Idea
Mastering Nonfiction
Lifting Off For Planet Performance
Live in the Process, Not for the Result
Talent, Inspiration and Blue Collar Work
Anne's First Scenes
Completing the Micro Analysis
Micro Beats and Hidden Story Meanings
Brokeback Mountain: Defining the Characters
Brokeback Mountain: The Foolscap
Launching the Masterwork Experiment
2nd Guessing Your Writing
How to Write a Great Scene
Why can't I finish my book?
5 Commandments and Pheres
The Atomic Theory of Storytelling
The Math of Storytelling
What is a Phere?
Editor's 6 Core Questions Part 2
The Editor's 6 Core Questions: Part 1
How important is genre?
Creating a Second Edition
How to Refine a Manuscript
Hero Archetypes and Grounding Reality
Hero's Journey Archetypes - Part 2
Hero's Journey Archetypes - Part 1
Why Story Grid is Different
A New Tool to Fight Resistance
Categorizing Scenes
How to Spreadsheet Your Novel
The Job of an Editor
Shawn's First Read of Tim's Second Draft
Why All The Suffering
World Building 101
Creating Believable Characters
Crafting a Great Ending
How to Finish Your Book
Is It Time to Quit?
Writing a Great Villain
Shawn's Dark Night of the Soul
When is The Book Done
Writing an Action Sequence
Game Theory in Story
Chaos vs Order
The Aftermath
Steven Pressfield
Running Down a Dream
Getting the Value Shifts Right
Fixing the Most Important Scene
Dive into Tim's 15 Scenes - Part 2
Deep Dive Into Tim's 15 Scenes - Part 1
Special Guest: Courtney Harrell
15 Most Important Scenes
Restarting an Old Project
What Does Shawn Think - Part 2
What Does Shawn Think?
Book is Done! Now What?
Miniplot, Editors, and Genre
Put the Darkness On Paper
Interview: Ryan Holiday
Tell Your Story
Truth vs. Truth
Finding My Why
The Middle of the Middle
Building Your Novel's World
Slogging the Middle Build
Die Hard and Tim's Middle Build
Die Hard
The Story Grid Spreadsheet
Editor's Six Core Questions Part 2
Editor's Six Core Questions Part 1
The 5 Commandments of Storytelling (Revisited)
Myths of Publishing
The 100th Podcast Episode
NaNoWriMo and Story Grid
Q&A with Shawn - Part 2
Q&A with Shawn - Part 1
Helping Others Become Better Writers
Specificity for Non-Fiction Storytelling
The Craft of Non-Fiction
Non-fiction Conventions and Obligatory Scenes
Editing Non-Fiction
Planning the 2nd Draft
Creating a Story Grid - Part 2
Creating a Story Grid - Part 1
Hero's Journey - Moments
Hero's Journey - Archetypes
The Foolscap Story Grid - Part 2
The Foolscap Story Grid
Micro to Macro: Editing Your First Draft
Spreadsheeting the First Draft
First Draft is Done. Now what?
The End?
Putting Off the Inevitable
The Race to the Finish
Just Skip to the End
What's Urgent and What's Important
The Meeting With the Goddess
The Mini HATMOTV Scene
Ratcheting Up The Tension
Problem by Problem
Organic Progress
Limitations Beget Innovation
When in Doubt...
Holding the Center
This is Not Normal
Got Live If You Want It
Four Dimensional Settings
The Cure for Writer's Block
The Meaty Middle
Knowing When You're Done
The Man In A Hole Sequence
Love and An Immersive Story Grid Experience
The Fundamental Genre
Revelation Turning Points
What's In Your Control and What's Out of Your Control
Building Better Scenes
Story Grid Spreadsheeting Your Scenes
Narrative Nonfiction Storytelling
Narrative Machines
How Pros Face Rejection
Grahl's Mojo, Vonnegut's Master's Thesis, and the Hedonometer
One Simple Question
This Far, No Further
Three Sentences
Working with the System
Power to the People
Where Did You Come From?
The Truth Hurts
Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t
Back to the Foolscap
Your Brother is in Trouble...We Need Your Help
Freud and Jung and You
Venn Diagrams
Beginnings Differ from Endings
Constructive Criticism
Intoxicating Accomplishments
Poultry Husbandry for Writers
The Wall
Writing and Depression
High Concepts
Coping with Imperfection
Musings on Theme
Road Blocks
Writing Habits
Storygridding 101
Stealing Versus Inspiration
Scene Work
Where do you get ideas?
Storygridding Nonfiction
Beginnings
Units Big and Small
If it's not working...Try something else...
The Martian Carol
Change Requires Loss
Who tells the Story?
Russian Dolls
A Deeper Dive into the Five Commandments of Storytelling
Crack the Scene and You'll Crack Your Novel
Yin and Yanging
The Allure of Flailing
Genre Choices
Publishing's Hatfields and McCoys
Soft Launching
Your Story Sets Up Your Work
Writing as Internal Geiger Counter
Writers and Self-Flagellation
The Big Chill
Cornucopia of Thanks