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How to Edit a Manuscript: Objective Tools – Part 1

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When you were in college, did your friends constantly want you to read over their papers to give feedback? Maybe your friends ask for your input on their blog posts before they hit publish. Or maybe other writers regularly want you to look at their stories to find what’s not working. These writers keep coming… Read more »

Story Editing: Definition and Story Grid’s Approach

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Story Grid is a methodology for creating and editing stories that consumers love so much they tell everyone they meet. In this article, we are going to specifically look at the problem of story editing and how Story Grid approaches this problem. Let’s start with a simple question … What is Story Editing? Story editing… Read more »

1-Page Book Plan: The Story Grid Foolscap

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How do you put your whole book on 1 page? While drafting or revising their novels, story writers often need a 30,000-foot, 1-page book plan for their stories to avoid going off track. To gain this perspective, they may try to work from memory or search through notes in a plan that is many pages… Read more »

Units of Story: Beats, Tropes, Scenes, Sequences, and Quadrants

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What are Units of Story? Units of story are a way of dividing our work into manageable pieces that can be examined and edited to create a story that works. Every story is made up of these pieces, and together they make up a global whole. Most people talk about units of story inconsistently. Common… Read more »

The Story Grid Infographic: How to Visualize Your Story

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What is the Story Grid Infographic? Dedicated story writers often want a visual understanding of the story arc they create for audience members so they can judge whether they are crafting the story experience they intend. Typically, they use Freytag’s pyramid or Aristotle’s plot mountain to see if their stories conform to story form. At… Read more »

Story Quadrants: Definitions and Examples

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What is a Story Quadrant? Dedicated writers often want to know how characters, specifically the protagonist, change throughout a story, so they can create compelling arcs that will grab and keep the reader’s attention. Typically, storytellers outline a basic plot that can force a change based on their personal instincts, rather than masterwork examples based… Read more »

Story Grid 624: How to Fix Your Scenes

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The Story Grid 624 is a process to help us level up our scenes so we can write stronger stories. SCENES are the building blocks of stories, and learning to write working scenes is the first and most important skill writers should pursue. When we use the Story Grid 624 consistently, we learn to identify… Read more »

Editor’s Six Core Questions: Macro Analyzing Your Manuscript

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What are the Editor’s Six Core Questions? The Editor’s Six Core Questions are a series of inquiries we use to diagnose a manuscript. By testing our stories this way, we can assess where we’ve gotten off track and identify specific and actionable steps to make the story better. We can also use these questions to… Read more »

The Story Grid Spreadsheet: Analyzing Your Manuscript Scene-by-Scene

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What is the Story Grid Spreadsheet? The Story Grid Spreadsheet is a tool writers and editors use to analyze scenes across an entire story. The spreadsheet helps us to improve our scenes and stories by diagnosing problems in our own works in progress. We also apply this tool to the studying MASTERWORKS to see how… Read more »

How to Run a Writing Group: A Proven System to Keep Feedback Positive and Helpful

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Are you tired of going it alone as a writer? Joining or starting a writing group is a wonderful way to build community and improve your writing skills. But beware. For every good experience of participating in a writing group, there are ten horror stories. Too many times unclear goals, personal egos, and loose structure… Read more »

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How to Edit a Manuscript: Objective Tools – Part 1

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Story Editing: Definition and Story Grid’s Approach

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1-Page Book Plan: The Story Grid Foolscap

Story Grid

Units of Story: Beats, Tropes, Scenes, Sequences, and Quadrants

Story Grid

The Story Grid Infographic: How to Visualize Your Story

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Story Quadrants: Definitions and Examples

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Story Grid 624: How to Fix Your Scenes

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Editor’s Six Core Questions: Macro Analyzing Your Manuscript

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The Story Grid Spreadsheet: Analyzing Your Manuscript Scene-by-Scene

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How to Run a Writing Group: A Proven System to Keep Feedback Positive and Helpful

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