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This is the last episode in Tim and my Publishing 101 series. We’ve had a great response from all who’ve listened and God knows we haven’t exhausted the topic in any way. So perhaps in the future, we’ll take this up again and answer some more questions from all of you Story Grid nerds out… Read more »
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Power to the People
Here’s the second episode of Tim and my exploration of the current state of the book publishing business. We talk a lot about the psychology of power in New York between book agents and publishers and how that dynamic affects the people that those seemingly omnipotent forces can’t do anything without…writers. Seeing through the publishing… Read more »
Read the Transcript >>Where Did You Come From?
In this episode of The Story Grid Podcast, Tim and I discuss our publishing origins. How we got where we are etc. Believe it or not, this kind of exercise isn’t a bad way of structuring a specific kind of story…one called the “origin story.” This is the narrative that tells how a person or… Read more »
Read the Transcript >>The Truth Hurts
In this week’s episode of The Story Grid Podcast, Tim and I discuss the power of facing difficult truths with Steven Pressfield, author of The War of Art and the just published Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t. Why is it so difficult to listen to mentors? Why do we insist on approaching our writing… Read more »
Read the Transcript >>Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t
So a couple of months ago Steven Pressfield and I thought about starting up a War of Art podcast. I asked Tim Grahl if he’d be willing to host the show for at least the first few episodes and he graciously agreed under one condition…that he be able to ask Steve and I whatever he… Read more »
Read the Transcript >>Back to the Foolscap
What do you do when you’re lost? You’ve overwhelmed yourself with every nitpicky itty bitty thing that is wrong with your work in progress. You just don’t know where to begin to piece together a plan to take what’s good in your first draft and rejigger it into something that works for your second. In… Read more »
Read the Transcript >>Your Brother is in Trouble…We Need Your Help
In this week’s episode of The Story Grid podcast, after some passionate positions we both take about the necessity of being open to mentorship, we’re noodling around the notion that your global inciting incident must be compelling and that your global story climax (the payoff of the inciting incident setup) must be both surprising and… Read more »
Read the Transcript >>Freud and Jung and You
What does studying psychology do for a writer? I can’t begin to tell you how important this auto-didactic education is to creating believable/sympathetic characters. Especially the antagonists… In this Story Grid Podcast episode we discuss the work of Sigmund Freud and his star pupil/turned rival Carl Jung as a means to get a handle on… Read more »
Read the Transcript >>Venn Diagrams
Where do your interests as a writer and the interests of an under-served community of readers intersect? This is the gist of this week’s Story Grid Podcast. We often get so enamored with our own particular fascinations, that we forget about an all important component of being a professional. That component is considering your audience,… Read more »
Read the Transcript >>Beginnings Differ from Endings
This episode of The Story Grid podcast is about getting back to basics. When you’re flummoxed, it’s always a good idea to take a deep breath and go back to the basics. What is my global over-riding Genre? In Tim’s case, it’s the Action Genre What is the value at stake in that Genre? For… Read more »
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