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Chapter 6: The 5 Commandments

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The following is an excerpt from the Story Grid Publishing title The Writers’ Common Language: A Shared Vocabulary to Tell Better Stories. If I learned one bit of knowledge from Shawn that I use more than any other, it is this. If our value doesn’t shift, we are breaking one (or more) of the Five… Read more »

Crafting Your Story Spine Using Literal and Essential Wants & Needs

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I have a story I’ve been noodling on for quite a few years. I’ve toyed with whether it should be a novel or a screenplay—probably both. Hopefully both. Here’s the premise: five friends in their 30s smoke recently legalized marijuana at their monthly book club meeting, hoping to find direction for the next chapter of… Read more »

Hamilton: Metaphor and Scene Analysis

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Hamilton as Metaphor Scene Analysis

Worldview and the YA/MG Genre

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For the past few years, Young Adult (YA) and Middle Grade (MG) has been extremely popular beyond their “normal” target audience. With the success of Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, the Hunger Games, and the Divergent series, more and more authors are turning to teen and children’s literature and trying to write one. Children and teen… Read more »

Phase Shifting: The Story Grid Universe in 2021

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A year ago, in January 2020, Story Grid Publishing released its first title, appropriately titled The Story Grid Universe. You can download and read it for free here. The Story Grid Universe was the first title of seventeen we put into the collective cultural soup last year. Those titles reflect the Story Grid Guild and… Read more »

The Heroic Journey 2.0 of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

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There has been a lot of talk around Story Grid lately about the Heroic Journey 2.0. If you’ve missed out on the conversations, I recommend starting with Shawn’s explanation on the podcast, which you can find here, here, and here, and The Hobbit, by J.R.R. Tolkien, a Story Grid Masterwork Analysis Guide, which you can… Read more »

Crafting Your Story’s Shadow

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Joseph Campbell identified the monomyth in his book The Hero with a Thousand Faces. In his research, Campbell found that it didn’t matter what culture or religion he looked at, there was a specific pattern of events that unfolded and seemed to come up again and again and again. This structure is seen in the… Read more »

The Story Grid Rule of 530

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You’re here because you have a dream of telling a story that works. Story Grid gives you the tools to do just that. By studying the Story Grid methodology, you can save yourself years of practice and millions of words by grounding your craft in proven technique instead of trial and error. With Story Grid,… Read more »

Stories as Equipment for Living

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Today’s post zooms out thirty thousand feet to get fundamentally fundamental with this question: Where do stories come from? Apologies in advance for the academically dense approach, but we have seen before the value that scholars like Norman Friedman, Carl Jung and Joseph Campbell bring to our understanding of story and the contributions they have… Read more »

How to Write Dialogue: Step-by-Step and Infographic

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Learning how to write dialogue is an essential part of telling stories that work. Dialogue is a character’s verbal and non-verbal expression of what they are thinking and feeling. It’s through dialogue that other characters get a glimpse into what’s going on in each other’s minds. It’s also used to reveal to the reader those… Read more »

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Chapter 6: The 5 Commandments

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Crafting Your Story Spine Using Literal and Essential Wants & Needs

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Hamilton: Metaphor and Scene Analysis

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Worldview and the YA/MG Genre

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Phase Shifting: The Story Grid Universe in 2021

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The Heroic Journey 2.0 of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer

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Crafting Your Story’s Shadow

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The Story Grid Rule of 530

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Stories as Equipment for Living

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How to Write Dialogue: Step-by-Step and Infographic

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