Storygridding The Tipping Point

Hitting the Wall

Storygridding The Tipping Point

So we’re making some solid progress with our Foolscap Global Story Grid for Malcolm Gladwell’s Big Idea Nonfiction book, The Tipping Point. I confess that the bottom three quarters of my Foolscap page for The Tipping Point gives me great anxiety. Why? Here’s where we stand:

Controlling Ideas in Nonfiction

Storygridding The Tipping Point

A few posts back, I wrote about the conventions and obligatory scenes in a Big Idea work of Nonfiction. One is what I call the Blatant Controlling Idea. Now we’re at the place on our Foolscap Global Story Grid where we’ll want to jot down the controlling idea/theme of The Tipping Point. Once we’ve completed… Read more »

Want and Need in Nonfiction

Storygridding The Tipping Point

We’re moving down our Foolscap Global Story Grid for The Tipping Point by Malcolm Gladwell and we’ve reached Objects of Desire. Which reminds me of that great line from Bob Dylan in “Stuck inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again:” Your Debutante knows what you need, but I know what you want. Gladwell also… Read more »

Four Nonfiction Points of View

Storygridding The Tipping Point

Moving down the Foolscap Global Story Grid for The Tipping Point we’ve now reached Point of View. Just as in fiction, the choices the nonfiction writer makes about Point of View in Big Idea Nonfiction are make or break decisions. What is the best way for the writer to address the reader for his particular… Read more »

Nine Must-Haves

Storygridding The Tipping Point

Here is our progress so far on our Foolscap Global Story Grid for The Tipping Point. We’ve just begun to fill out the “Obligatory Scenes and Conventions” we’ll need to abide. Remember that the reason why we list the OS and Cs is to have a list to source and identify exactly where the writer… Read more »

Unknown Unknowns

Storygridding The Tipping Point

We’re storygridding The Tipping Point. Why are we doing this again? The reason why we want to storygrid the book is to discover how Malcolm Gladwell crafted an indelible story…one that not only sold millions of copies, but also changed the way we view our world. Story Grids are the blueprints/CT scans that teach us… Read more »

Mea Culpa

Storygridding The Tipping Point

From the last post, we’ve sussed out the required hero/s, victim/s, and villain of the Action Adventure Story in The Tipping Point. These three cast members are indispensable for the Action Genre, a component of the Content leaf on Genre’s Five-Leaf clover. Without having hero/s, victim/s and a villain in The Tipping Point there was… Read more »

Hero, Victim, Villain

Storygridding The Tipping Point

Malcolm Gladwell describes The Tipping Point as an intellectual adventure story. Beyond the appeal of the phrase…it connotes both high and low on the old Literary and Commercial spectrum…what does he mean by that? Like literally mean by that? Let’s go back to The Story Grid’s GENRE section and look again at what the Action… Read more »

The Internal Genre of The Tipping Point

Storygridding The Tipping Point

Soon after I committed myself to storygrid Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point, I had heart palpitations. I had a handle on the global external Genre (The Big Idea Nonfiction Book) and a sense of the conventions and obligatory scenes inherent in it, but I didn’t have any idea of what the overarching “Story” of the… Read more »

Ethos, Logos and Pathos

Storygridding The Tipping Point

Now that I’ve categorized the global genre of Malcolm Gladwell’s The Tipping Point—Big Idea Nonfiction—and the conventions and obligatory scenes generally associated with that global genre, I need to think about the foundational building blocks of Big Idea Nonfiction. Why do I need to know the building blocks now? Before I’ll ever be able to… Read more »

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Storygridding The Tipping Point

Hitting the Wall

Storygridding The Tipping Point

Controlling Ideas in Nonfiction

Storygridding The Tipping Point

Want and Need in Nonfiction

Storygridding The Tipping Point

Four Nonfiction Points of View

Storygridding The Tipping Point

Nine Must-Haves

Storygridding The Tipping Point

Unknown Unknowns

Storygridding The Tipping Point

Mea Culpa

Storygridding The Tipping Point

Hero, Victim, Villain

Storygridding The Tipping Point

The Internal Genre of The Tipping Point

Storygridding The Tipping Point

Ethos, Logos and Pathos

Storygridding The Tipping Point

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