Welcome to the Story Grid Masterwork Experiment!
In this ten-episode summer series, Shawn Coyne and author Anne Hawley are breaking a great masterwork down to the beat level to find out whether an experienced writer can create a new and original story from exactly the same building blocks.
In place of our usual Roundtable episode today, we’re sharing episode 1 of the Masterwork Experiment, which introduces the masterwork and lays out the experimental protocol. Will Anne write something new and fresh? Or will she wind up with a hackneyed copy of a beloved novella? Put on your lab coat and goggles, and join us in the story lab to find out.
Next week, we’ll return with our first episode of season 5 of the Story Grid Editor Roundtable Podcast, in which Anne and the other Roundtablers analyze the 1995 film adaptation of A Little Princess, based on the novel by Frances Hodgson Burnett.
You can find show notes for the “Story Grid Masterwork Experiment” on the Story Grid Podcast page.
Click here to access Anne’s Foolscap for Brokeback Mountain.
Click here to access Anne’s spreadsheet for Brokeback Mountain.
The original New Yorker publication of “Brokeback Mountain” by Annie Proulx can be found here.
Close Range is an Annie Proulx story collection that contains a slightly extended version of Brokeback Mountain.
Anne Hawley is the author of Restraint, a love story set in 19th Century London. She’s a Story Grid Certified Editor specializing in literary and historical fiction, and is the producer of the Story Grid Editor Roundtable podcast. To find out more about Anne, visit her website.
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