Storygridding The Tipping Point

A Prescient Warning

Storygridding The Tipping Point

The Ending Payoff of The Tipping Point does not disappoint. Remember the David Mamet quote about how Stories work in his book Bambi vs. Godzilla? They start with a simple premise and proceed logically, and inevitably, toward a conclusion both surprising and inevitable. So what is the surprising and inevitable conclusion of The Tipping Point?… Read more »

Accentuate the Positive

Storygridding The Tipping Point

When I finished plotting the global value movements from scene to scene for The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell, the first thing that popped out was how well Gladwell put into practice what he speaks so clearly about in the book itself. Specifically, the necessity of putting the “clues” of your Story in the proper… Read more »

Infographic Overkill

Storygridding The Tipping Point

You didn’t think I wasn’t going to combine my macro (The Foolscap Global Story Grid) and my micro (The Story Grid Spreadsheet) for The Tipping Point and create a super-cool Story Grid infographic, did you? I can’t begin to describe the internal resistance I’ve battled pulling this together. Judging from the reactions, or lack of reactions… Read more »

The Ending Payoff Spreadsheet of The Tipping Point

Storygridding The Tipping Point

So what’s the big payoff for The Tipping Point? A step by step recipe to take a lousy product and make it a word of mouth sensation? A feel good celebration of mass behavior? Not even close. There is not a Hush Puppy or Muppet to be found in this crucial last section of Gladwell’s… Read more »

The Middle Build of The Tipping Point

Storygridding The Tipping Point

One glance at The Story Grid Spreadsheet for Malcolm Gladwell’s Middle Build for The Tipping Point is all one needs to understand just how much work the man put into this book. The research and story examples he uses to build his Three Law argument to support his Tipping Point theory are extraordinary. It is… Read more »

The Story Grid Spreadsheet for The Tipping Point

Storygridding The Tipping Point

How does one begin the editorial process? You’ve got a first draft of your Big Idea book of nonfiction and you’re not sure what to do next. You know that the manuscript is probably loaded with small and not so small problems, but you have no idea what or where they are. What to do?… Read more »

The Tipping Point on One Piece of Paper

Storygridding The Tipping Point

We left off last week asserting that Malcolm Gladwell relied on the power of three to reason an explanation of how Tipping Points work. Remember the conundrum he faced? He needed to find a simple way for readers to understand how small linear cause and effect changes lead to a dramatic moment that exponentially and… Read more »

Trinities

Storygridding The Tipping Point

A few years ago, a friend of mine sent me a desperate email. He had a big lump of manuscript filled with stuff that went here and there and over there and around the corner and through the trees and over the hill only to cross the finish line at Daytona. He had exactly three… Read more »

Out of the Rabbit Hole

Storygridding The Tipping Point

For those of you playing the Storygridding the Tipping Point home game…at long last…we’ve reached the beginning of the ending payoff of the journey. Let’s pick up from the “Staring Down the First Draft” post from August 18, 2015. It’s now June 1998, just about eighteen months after Malcolm Gladwell signed his Little Brown contract… Read more »

Spontaneous Auction

Storygridding The Tipping Point

[Episode 2 of The Story Grid Podcast is available here, transcript available next Tuesday] It’s Tuesday September 3, 1996, 10:23 a.m. After she’s hung up the phone with Bill Phillips at Little Brown, Janklow & Nesbit literary agent Tina Bennett gives herself the permission to enjoy a two-minute rush of adrenaline. Phillips had called her… Read more »

<< Older Articles

Storygridding The Tipping Point

A Prescient Warning

Storygridding The Tipping Point

Accentuate the Positive

Storygridding The Tipping Point

Infographic Overkill

Storygridding The Tipping Point

The Ending Payoff Spreadsheet of The Tipping Point

Storygridding The Tipping Point

The Middle Build of The Tipping Point

Storygridding The Tipping Point

The Story Grid Spreadsheet for The Tipping Point

Storygridding The Tipping Point

The Tipping Point on One Piece of Paper

Storygridding The Tipping Point

Trinities

Storygridding The Tipping Point

Out of the Rabbit Hole

Storygridding The Tipping Point

Spontaneous Auction

Storygridding The Tipping Point

Still not finding what
you're looking for?

The Book

First Time Writer

Resources

Storygridding The Tipping Point

Still not finding whatyou're looking for?

The Book

First Time Writer

Resources

Still not finding what
you're looking for?