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Storygridding The Tipping Point

A Prescient Warning

Storygridding The Tipping Point

The Ending Payoff of The Tipping Point does not disappoint. Remember the David Mamet quote about how Stories work in his book Bambi vs. Godzilla? They start with a simple premise and proceed logically, and inevitably, toward a conclusion both surprising and inevitable. So what is the surprising and inevitable conclusion of The Tipping Point?… Read more »

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Infographic Overkill

Storygridding The Tipping Point

You didn’t think I wasn’t going to combine my macro (The Foolscap Global Story Grid) and my micro (The Story Grid Spreadsheet) for The Tipping Point and create a super-cool Story Grid infographic, did you? I can’t begin to describe the internal resistance I’ve battled pulling this together. Judging from the reactions, or lack of reactions… Read more »

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Trinities

Storygridding The Tipping Point

A few years ago, a friend of mine sent me a desperate email. He had a big lump of manuscript filled with stuff that went here and there and over there and around the corner and through the trees and over the hill only to cross the finish line at Daytona. He had exactly three… Read more »

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Out of the Rabbit Hole

Storygridding The Tipping Point

For those of you playing the Storygridding the Tipping Point home game…at long last…we’ve reached the beginning of the ending payoff of the journey. Let’s pick up from the “Staring Down the First Draft” post from August 18, 2015. It’s now June 1998, just about eighteen months after Malcolm Gladwell signed his Little Brown contract… Read more »

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Spontaneous Auction

Storygridding The Tipping Point

[Episode 2 of The Story Grid Podcast is available here, transcript available next Tuesday] It’s Tuesday September 3, 1996, 10:23 a.m. After she’s hung up the phone with Bill Phillips at Little Brown, Janklow & Nesbit literary agent Tina Bennett gives herself the permission to enjoy a two-minute rush of adrenaline. Phillips had called her… Read more »

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