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I’ll just say this about narrative device…when you figure it out what suits your story best, you’ll find immeasurable relief. When Harper Lee and her editor figured out that To Kill a Mockingbird would work best using the point of view of Scout reflecting back upon her childhood and when Steven Pressfield figured out that… Read more »
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Russian Dolls
It’s worth repeating. Again and again… Storytelling is a process by which you learn how to craft the primary unit of on-the-page Story (the Scene) in such a way that the scenes combine to form a larger entity called the Sequence, which coalesce to form an even larger unit called the Act, which form the… Read more »
Read the Transcript >>A Deeper Dive into the Five Commandments of Storytelling
Steve Pressfield and I are launching a crazy deal called THE BLACK IRISH MEGABUNDLE FOR WRITERS at his website tomorrow. It includes seven titles (including THE STORY GRID paperback and EBook, plus THE WAR OF ART, TURNING PRO, DO THE WORK, and a couple of extra goodies including a brand new book by Steve) for… Read more »
Read the Transcript >>Crack the Scene and You’ll Crack Your Novel
The results of our WHICH BOOK TO STORY GRID NEXT are in! THE MARTIAN received 782 votes TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD received 731 votes and THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY received 239 votes. So tune in to The Story Grid Podcast on December 23, 2015 to check out The Story Grid for Andy Weir’s THE… Read more »
Read the Transcript >>Yin and Yanging
Here’s the transcript for episode five, “Rocky is kind of a loser” of The Story Grid Podcast. You can also listen to it by clicking the play button below. Tim: Hello, and welcome to The Story Grid Podcast. This is the show dedicated to helping you become a better writer. In this show, we… Read more »
Read the Transcript >>The Allure of Flailing
Here’s the transcript for episode four, “What about Deliverance, right?” of The Story Grid Podcast. You can also listen to it by clicking the play button below. Tim: Hello, and welcome to Episode 4 of The Story Grid Podcast. I’m your host, Tim Grahl, and this podcast is dedicated to walking through all of the… Read more »
Read the Transcript >>Genre Choices
Here’s the transcript for episode three, “Until the Woman From the Sea Arrives” of The Story Grid Podcast. You can also listen to it by clicking the play button below. Tim: Hello, and welcome to Episode 3 of The Story Grid Podcast. I’m your host, Tim Grahl, and Shawn Coyne will be joining me shortly…. Read more »
Read the Transcript >>Publishing’s Hatfields and McCoys
Here’s the transcript for episode two, “Ice cubes can either become guns or they can’t” of The Story Grid Podcast. You can also listen to it by clicking the play button below. Tim: Hello, and welcome to Episode 2 of The Story Grid Podcast. This is Tim Grahl, I’m your host. Shawn is going to… Read more »
Read the Transcript >>Soft Launching
Tim Grahl and I “soft-launched” The Story Grid Podcast here just last Thursday October 15. Thank you to all of you who’ve listened and especially all of you hardcore story nerds who reached out via email to say how much you liked it. I had no idea there was a such a legion… There was… Read more »
Read the Transcript >>Your Story Sets Up Your Work
Today’s post features a transcript of an interview I did with Marx Pyle and his partner Julie at GenrEtainment. If you’d rather listen to it, you can find it here. What strikes me as I do more and more of these interviews is the necessity of being able to tell your own Story effectively. If… Read more »
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