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How to Give Helpful Writing Feedback

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As a writer, it’s nearly impossible to get helpful, specific, actionable feedback on your writing. Even if you join a WRITING GROUP, most of the feedback you receive is vague, unactionable, and often more about the person giving the feedback than the actual writing. To that end, we decided to provide this guide to giving… Read more »

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How to Write Scenes: Structure, Examples, and Definitions

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What is a Scene? Scenes are the building blocks of our stories. These STORY UNITS dramatize definable VALUE SHIFTS for the AVATARS (or characters) and their CONTEXT (or setting). The value shifts that occur in each working scene of the story incrementally build the global arcs of change.  Many writers define scenes by chapter breaks… Read more »

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Episode 276: The Impact of a Story Theme: An Interview with Scott Mann and Randle Surles about the book Operation Pineapple Express

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Genre Conventions: Must-Have Elements of Story

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What are Genre Conventions? Genre conventions are specific requirements for the story’s ALTERNATE WORLD, AVATARS, and catalysts that create conflict and enable solutions. Without specific genre conventions, the reader will be confused, unsettled, or bored and quit reading. Genre Conventions set up genre audience expectations and create the potential for specific change in the OBLIGATORY… Read more »

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Worldbuilding in Story: How to Create a Compelling Alternate World

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What is Worldbuilding? Worldbuilding is how we create an Alternate World for our story where the AVATARS interact and the story events unfold. It is the whole system setting for the story, which includes all the objects and AVATARS inside it and the relationships between them. In Story Grid, we use the term Alternate World… Read more »

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Obligatory Moments in Story and Genre

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What are Obligatory Moments? Obligatory Moments are the key events in every story that change the human value and pay off reader expectations in a story. The value shifts are the most pronounced in these moments of the story and readers tend to recognize and appreciate these moments more than other moments of the story…. Read more »

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