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Shawn continues answering listener questions. To submit a question for a future episode, find us on Twitter @storygrid. [0:00:00.3] TG: Hello and welcome to the Story Grid Podcast. This is a show dedicated to helping you become a better writer. I’m your host Tim Grahl and I am a struggling writer trying to figure out… Read more »
Read the Transcript >>The Story Grid Podcast
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Q&A with Shawn – Part 1
I’ve always seen myself as the stand-in for you, the writer. I try to ask all the dumb and embarrassing questions and make sure the show is something that represents the every day writer. Which is why it’s a bit weird that we’ve never actually done a Q&A with Shawn based on your actual questions…. Read more »
Read the Transcript >>Helping Others Become Better Writers
Have you heard the advice that if you want to learn something, teach it? I think that applies to storytelling too. Now that my writer friends know about the podcast, they often ask my advice on their stories. Pretty quickly I realize where the holes in my knowledge are. This is often what ends up… Read more »
Read the Transcript >>Specificity for Non-Fiction Storytelling
How do you tell a great story for non-fiction? I’m used to just stringing facts together, but the great writers can tell a true story just as compellingly as a fiction one. In this episode, Shawn and I look into how specificity plays a major role in your non-fiction writing. [0:00:00.3] TG: Hello and welcome… Read more »
Read the Transcript >>The Craft of Non-Fiction
Shawn uses the second draft of Tim’s introduction to focus in on the craft of writing great non-fiction.
Read the Transcript >>Non-fiction Conventions and Obligatory Scenes
If you’ve been around Story Grid very long you know that understanding your genre is job one for any manuscript. Then, once you know that, you identify the conventions and obligatory scenes that go with your chosen genre. The same is true for non-fiction. In this week’s episode, Shawn and I talk through the conventions… Read more »
Read the Transcript >>Editing Non-Fiction
As Shawn and I have been working through the first draft of my novel, I was working on a first draft of my next non-fiction book. Now Shawn and I will be working through how to use the Story Grid tools and principles to edit non-fiction. [0:00:00.3] TG: Hello and welcome to the Story Grid… Read more »
Read the Transcript >>Planning the 2nd Draft
After a couple months of running the first draft through the Story Grid tools, I’m finally ready to start working on the second draft. This week Shawn gets me ready to get started. [0:00:00.5] TG: Hello and welcome to the Story Grid Podcast. This is the show dedicated to helping you become a better writer…. Read more »
Read the Transcript >>Creating a Story Grid – Part 2
This week Shawn and I continued working through Story Grid Graph as a tool for editing the first draft of a novel. [0:00:00.5] TG: Hello and welcome to the Story Grid Podcast. This is the show dedicated to helping you become a better writer. I’m your host, Tim Grahl and I am a struggling writer trying… Read more »
Read the Transcript >>Creating a Story Grid – Part 1
We have now entered the 4th step in moving from first draft to second draft. This week we dive into how to work through each scene in developing an actual Story Grid Graph. [0:00:00.5] TG: Hello and welcome to the Story Grid Podcast. This is the show dedicated to helping you become a better… Read more »
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