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How to Introduce Your Story: A Guide to Placing Your Inciting Incident

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Hello there Hi, great to meet you! Hello, pleased to make your acquaintance. Hey, good to meet ya! From just a few words, you can tell a lot about a person. You only have seven seconds to make a first impression. The first moments of your introduction to someone new are critical in determining the… Read more »

How to Plan a Novel: The Complete Step-by-Step Guide

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Before you can write a novel you need to know how to plan a novel. Story Grid has many tools that can help you through the process. Follow along with this post as we walk you through it. Writing a novel can be rewarding and a tremendous amount of fun. It can also be a… Read more »

Editor Roundtable: The Return of the King

Editor Roundtable Podcast, Story Grid

This week, Leslie concludes her examination of action stories on an epic scale with the epic-est epic of of them all, The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King. This 2003 conclusion to The Lord of the Rings trilogy was directed by Peter Jackson from a screenplay he wrote with Fran Walsh… Read more »

Character Craze: Why Writers Should Develop the Antagonist First

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Featuring Hamilton‘s Aaron Burr Outlining the protagonist is a popular way to start building a story, but unless a hero has a mesmerizing antagonist challenging them to become a hero, the story will flop. Don’t feel bad if you’re focusing on your main character first. I’ve been doing the same thing for a decade: building… Read more »

Murder Mystery: Crafting an Intriguing Puzzle of Justice

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Are you stuck with the idea of the value at stake in your genre, but struggle with how to break it down across the whole of a story? I’ve been there. I ended up creating a hybrid visual tool that combines the value at stake and a map of the scenes of a masterwork. The… Read more »

Lifting Off For Planet Performance

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Brokeback Mountain on the New Yorker website Annie Proulx’s prologue (that wasn’t in the New Yorker) Anne’s Working Draft Anne’s Foolscap and Spreadsheet Anne’s Beat Breakdown Anne’s Crosswalk Document Anne Hawley is the author of Restraint, a love story set in 19th Century London. She’s a Story Grid Certified Editor specializing in literary and historical… Read more »

Live in the Process, Not for the Result

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Brokeback Mountain on the New Yorker website Annie Proulx’s prologue (that wasn’t in the New Yorker) Anne’s Working Draft Anne’s Foolscap and Spreadsheet Anne’s Beat Breakdown Anne’s Crosswalk Document John Vernaeke’s Lecture Hobo Signs Anne Hawley is the author of Restraint, a love story set in 19th Century London. She’s a Story Grid Certified Editor… Read more »

Mastering the Clock

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Everyone is familiar with the “ticking clock” in stories. It’s the bomb set to explode in T-Minus five minutes if the hero doesn’t figure out whether to pull the red, green or yellow cable. Or the meteorite on its way to destroy the Earth if the brilliant scientists or brave soldier cannot figure out how to stop… Read more »

Talent, Inspiration and Blue Collar Work

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Brokeback Mountain on the New Yorker website Annie Proulx’s prologue (that wasn’t in the New Yorker) Anne’s Foolscap and Spreadsheet Anne’s Beat Breakdown Anne’s Crosswalk Document Lee Wind’s YA Novel Queer As a Five Dollar Bill Jeff and Will’s Big Gay Fiction Podcast Anne Hawley is the author of Restraint, a love story set in… Read more »

Editor’s View vs Writer’s View

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Brokeback Mountain on the New Yorker website Anne’s Foolscap and Spreadsheet Anne’s Beat Breakdown Anne’s Crosswalk Document Anne Hawley is the author of Restraint, a love story set in 19th Century London. She’s a Story Grid Certified Editor specializing in literary and historical fiction, and is the producer of the Story Grid Editor Roundtable podcast…. Read more »

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How to Introduce Your Story: A Guide to Placing Your Inciting Incident

Story Grid

How to Plan a Novel: The Complete Step-by-Step Guide

Editor Roundtable Podcast, Story Grid

Editor Roundtable: The Return of the King

Editor Roundtable Podcast, Story Grid

Character Craze: Why Writers Should Develop the Antagonist First

Story Grid

Murder Mystery: Crafting an Intriguing Puzzle of Justice

Story Grid

Lifting Off For Planet Performance

Podcasts, Story Grid

Live in the Process, Not for the Result

Podcasts, Story Grid

Mastering the Clock

Story Grid

Talent, Inspiration and Blue Collar Work

Podcasts, Story Grid

Editor’s View vs Writer’s View

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