Live Online Trainings
Ground Your Craft
The Ground Your Craft course teaches writers the fundamental structure behind masterful single scenes. And through this descriptive process, Ground Your Craft reveals the secrets behind how master writers create mystery, suspense and dramatic irony to hold audiences rapt page after page.
Each week will feature one of the twelve genres. First you will learn how to identify the core scenes for each of those genres. Then with laser focus, you will learn how to dissect that week's specific masterwork down to its most basic beats. Once the beat-by-beat progression is revealed, you'll learn how to use these masterwork structures to inspire original scene creations. And then you'll put the Story Grid prescription to the test by writing your own scene using the same structure as the masterwork.
Who better to direct the construction of an original work of art than master scene builders at the top of their genres?
Story Grid reveals the architecture of the masters and teaches you how to adapt their approach to create your own work.
The 15-week Summer 2019 Semester begins May 27th.
Course Focus
- High resolution, on the page analysis of 12 individual masterwork scenes.
- In-depth overview of all 12 content genres.
- Identify the core event scene for all 12 content genres.
- Write your own scenes inspired by the masterworks.
- Learn how to best apply The Story Grid Spreadsheet for both scenes and beats.
Includes
- Weekly lectures from Shawn Coyne that take students inside his editing process step-by-step as he reveals just how the masterwork scenes have been constructed.
- With a new Story Grid tool called "analyzing scene and beat types," weekly in-depth, specific directives from Shawn Coyne that will enable you to write your own original scene inspired by the masterwork.
- Weekly original scenes will be written by Story Grid Certified Editors based on the coursework to illustrate the new methodology.
- Weekly live discussion with Story Grid Certified Editors.
- 24/7 discussion forum available to discuss coursework with fellow students and to share weekly scene work.
- Mobile and desktop access.
- Forever access - you will be able to review the material for the life of Story Grid
Level Up Your Craft
The Level Up Your Craft course teaches writers global skeletal structure for medium and longform stories. Level Up Your Craft provides the indispensable lens that will serve you as the final arbiter of whether or not your story works. Or doesn't
As detailed in The Story Grid, fifteen scenes (five from the beginning hook, five from the middle build, and five from the ending payoff) form the backbone of a story that works. Level Up Your Craft focuses an entire week of work on each of these single scenes. It does so by using three masterworks to illustrate the core concepts that define each scene's particular role in the global story's movement.
If you get confused as to why you lose steam in the middle of a project or why feedback you receive tends to point out that the reader eventually lost interest or could no longer suspect his or her disbelief, Level Up Your Craft will give you the insight to pinpoint what's not working in your draft and the tools that show you how to fix it.
Including 15 separate lectures from Shawn Coyne, Level Up Your Craft teaches the Big Picture/Macro fundamentals of storytelling through a deep analysis of three unique masterworks. One from the Love Genre, one from the Action Genre and one from the Thriller Genre.
The 15-week Summer 2019 Semester begins May 27th.
Course Focus
- Dissects a Love, an Action and a Thriller masterwork into each of its 15 essential scenes.
- Learn how to create and best apply The Foolscap Global Story Grid.
- Identify the global genre for mixed-genre works.
- Pinpoint the core event for Love, Action, and Thriller.
- Identify the conventions and obligatory scenes of Love, Action, and Thriller.
Includes
- Weekly lectures from Shawn Coyne delivered every Monday.
- Weekly coursework to dissect the lessons and apply them to your own writing and/or chosen masterwork.
- Weekly live discussion with Story Grid Certified Editors.
- 24/7 discussion forum available to discuss coursework with fellow students.
- Mobile and desktop access.
- Forever access - you will be able to review the material for the life of Story Grid