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Editor Roundtable: Bite Size Edition: Internal Genre Buffet

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Welcome to the Bite Size Edition of the Story Grid Editor Roundtable Podcast. Here on the Roundtable we’re dedicated to helping you become a better writer, following the Story Grid method developed by Shawn Coyne. In these bite-size episodes, we’ll serve up some shorter discussion on topics that interest us as writers. On today’s menu… Read more »

Editor Roundtable: Bite Size Edition: Thawing the Fiction Freeze

Editor Roundtable Podcast

Welcome to the new Bite Size Edition of the Editor Roundtable Podcast. Here on the Roundtable we’re dedicated to helping you become a better writer, following the Story Grid method developed by Shawn Coyne. In these episodes we’ll be bringing you some shorter solo articles and interviews on topics that interest us as writers. It’s… Read more »

Editor Roundtable: Story Grid 101: Coco

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We wind up Season 3 with another episode of Story Grid 101. Each of the Roundtable Editors is tackling one of the Story Grid Five Commandments for a deep dive into the fundamental structure of scene, act, and global story, using the Pixar animated feature, Coco as our model. This 2017 family favorite… Read more »

Editor Roundtable: The King’s Speech

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This week, Leslie pitched The King’s Speech as a great example of emotional stakes. This 2010 film, which won Oscars for best picture, best actor, and best screenplay, was directed by Tom Hooper from a screenplay by David Seidler, who himself developed a stammer as a child. Genre: Performance with Status Sentimental Beginning Hook… Read more »

Editor Roundtable: Inception

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This week we’re going deep into the dream world with Anne’s pitch, Inception, as a great example of nested storytelling. This 2010 science fiction heist film, nominated for 8 Academy Awards—four of which it won—was written and directed by Christopher Nolan. Now, we always try to discuss our movie in a way that lets… Read more »

Editor Roundtable: Jane Eyre

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This week, Kim pitched Jane Eyre as a great example of Framing Story Narrative Device. This 2011 adaptation of the 1847 gothic romance novel by Charlotte Brontë was directed by Cary Joji Fukunaga from a screenplay by Moira Buffini. The Story Beginning Hook – Jane Eyre runs away from a great house, on foot… Read more »

Editor Roundtable: Get Out

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This week, Valerie pitched Get Out as a great example of Narrative Drive. This 2017 horror film was directed by Jordan Peele from a screenplay by Jordan Peele of Key & Peele fame. The Story Genre: Horror > Uncanny Beginning Hook – When Chris goes to visit his girlfriend’s parents’ house for the weekend,… Read more »

Editor Roundtable: The Wizard of Oz

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This week, Leslie pitched The Wizard of Oz as a great example of extended metaphor and symbolism in a story. This 1939 perennial classic was primarily directed by Victor Fleming from a screenplay by Noel Langley, Florence Ryerson, and Edgar Allan Woolf based on The Wonderful Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum, which… Read more »

Editor Roundtable: Rudy

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This week, Jarie pitched Rudy as a great example of how to tell a true life story. This 1993 film starring Sean Astin and Ned Beatty was directed by David Anspaugh from a screenplay by Angelo Pizzo (creator of Hoosiers) based on the life of Daniel Eugene “Rudy” Ruettiger, a walk on to the… Read more »

Editor Roundtable: Black Panther

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This week, Anne pitched Black Panther as a great example of a genre in disguise. Last week we considered whether About Time was really an internal genre story—Worldview—marketed as an external-genre story, a love story. With Black Panther, we may have a case of one external genre, the Society political drama, masquerading as another,… Read more »

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Editor Roundtable Podcast

Editor Roundtable: Bite Size Edition: Internal Genre Buffet

Editor Roundtable Podcast

Editor Roundtable: Bite Size Edition: Thawing the Fiction Freeze

Editor Roundtable Podcast

Editor Roundtable: Story Grid 101: Coco

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Editor Roundtable: The King’s Speech

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Editor Roundtable: Inception

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Editor Roundtable: Jane Eyre

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Editor Roundtable: Get Out

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Editor Roundtable: The Wizard of Oz

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Editor Roundtable: Rudy

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Editor Roundtable: Black Panther

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