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Art and Polarity

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Tim and I are knee-deep in creating a bunch of podcasts to cover us through an upcoming hiatus.  So this week’s transcript is a bit behind.  As soon as it’s ready, I’ll post it straightaway.  In the meantime, here’s a post I wrote for Steven Pressfield’s site (www.stevenpressfield.com) in the “What it Takes” column I… Read more »

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Narrative Drive

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So Steve Pressfield and I are beginning a project together that we’re both very excited about (and rather terrified by too). I’m sorry that I can’t tell you what it is yet.  Simply because Steve and I aren’t really sure about what it is either.  But what I can say is that it requires my… Read more »

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The Micro Story

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With your Foolscap Global Story Grid road map and a thousand cups of coffee, you’ve reached THE END.  Now what? Now is the time to send your writer half of the brain on a long vacation and hand over the Story keys to your inner editor.  He’s going to create an indispensable spreadsheet that will… Read more »

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The Macro Story

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Editors (and Writers!) must master the Macro of Story.  The Foolscap Global Story Grid is a simple one-page map to figure out your Story’s final destination are more importantly how to get there. Part 3 of 5: The Foolscap Global Story Grid Shawn Coyne: So now that we have a pretty clear understanding of what… Read more »

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Genre Review

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The first question we have to ask ourselves when we sit down to begin a new project is “What kind of Story do I want to tell?”  The best way to answer is to begin with a review of Genre and what I call the Five-Leaf Genre Clover. For those of you who prefer to… Read more »

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Mixing Genres

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A friend of mine emailed me over the weekend asking about a coming of age/maturation story he’s working on. He’s read the recent posts about the redemption story and wanted more information about “mixing genres.” He knows for certain that his global story is driven by his lead character’s progression from naivete to worldliness but… Read more »

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