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Click here to Subscribe in iTunes. Helping you become a better writer. Join Shawn Coyne, author of Story Grid and a top editor for 25+ years, and Tim Grahl, struggling writer, as they discus...
This will be the final episode of the Story Grid Podcast for the foreseeable future. Tim gives some background on why this decision was made...
Access the full Story Grid analysis of Crazy Rich Asians at https://storygrid.com/crazy . What can writers learn from studying this 2018 fil...
Access the full Story Grid analysis of Crazy Rich Asians at https://storygrid.com/crazy . What can writers learn from studying this 2018 fil...
Access the full Story Grid analysis of Crazy Rich Asians at https://storygrid.com/crazy . What can writers learn from studying this 2018 fil...
Access the full Story Grid analysis of Crazy Rich Asians at https://storygrid.com/crazy . What can writers learn from studying this 2018 fil...
Access the full Story Grid analysis of John Wick at https://storygrid.com/wick. This is the final in a four part series analyzing the movie...
Access the full Story Grid analysis of John Wick at https://storygrid.com/wick. This is the third in a four part series analyzing the movie...
Access the full Story Grid analysis of John Wick at https://storygrid.com/wick. This is the second in a four part series analyzing the movie...
Access the full Story Grid analysis of John Wick at https://storygrid.com/wick. This is the first in a four part series analyzing the movie...
We're down to line edits on Tim's iteration of the masterwork Eye Witness by Ed McBain. Shawn, Danielle, and Leslie provide final feedback o...
Now that Tim has had a breakthrough on his iteration of EYE WITNESS by Ed McBain, we're getting down to fixing individual Beats and checking...
Does Tim Actually Get It Right? How to Nail the Narrative Device On Tim's 10th draft, he finally makes a breakthrough on his iteration of EY...
In this impromptu episode, Tim and Danielle discuss the ongoing problems with the work on the Ed McBain EYE WITNESS scene and why Tim can't...
Shawn takes a crack at rewriting Tim's scene to help him understand what he's missing on the Narrative Device. Then we hear Leslie and Danie...
There are lots of insights in this week's episode of the podcast. We look at the emotional connection between the hero and victim, ensuring...
Nobody is innocent in your story. Everyone is hiding something. You must adjust these levels correctly in order for your reader to connect w...
Who is the Hero, Victim, and Perpetrator in your story? What are the relationships between each of them? The more vague or ungrounded each o...
Figuring out your Story Theme is the key to unlocking the entire roadmap of your story. Scott Mann is the author of the new book → Operation...
How do you ground your characters in a reality that your reader will believe even though you are making the whole thing up? This week Tim ma...
Who is telling your story? Who are they telling it to? Why are they telling it? This is the Narrative Device! The Narrative Device consists...
Shawn, Leslie, Danielle and Tim face a hard question... Is the Story Grid Podcast still worth doing? You might be surprised by what they hav...
What happens when you can't connect to your protagonist? This week Tim makes some progress on his scene, but it's still missing something. T...
There are times in your story when you need to switch out the protagonist. This can even happen in the middle of a scene or short story. But...
Great stories always answer two-factor problems. In this episode we see how Tim's mistake of choosing the wrong protagonist messes up the tw...
In this episode we start comparing the Story Grid 624 Analysis of the first draft of Tim's scene to EYE WITNESS by Ed McBain. Pretty quickly...
Tim has written a first draft of his scene based on the in-depth analysis of Ed McBain's EYE WITNESS. Listen in as Shawn, Danielle and Lesli...
Tim has written a first draft of his scene based on the in-depth analysis of Ed McBain's EYE WITNESS. Listen in as Shawn, Danielle and Lesli...
How do we use all of this masterwork analysis to actually iterate our own short story? In this week's episode, we look at the 624, Beat, and...
What are Tropes and how can they actually help your writing? Tropes are a toolbox of common components to build a certain kind of story. You...
Learn how your line-by-line writing can be improved by the Story Grid Beat methodology. In this episode, we show you the final line graph ge...
In this episode, Danielle continues walking Tim through every single line of Ed McBain's EYE WITNESS to help him identify the beats and what...
Now that we have finished up the Story Grid 624 Analysis of Ed McBain's EYE WITNESS (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WLiCyxIsCk), it's time...
We have wrapped up our 624 analysis of Ed McBain's short story EYE WITNESS. In this episode, Leslie does a review of the 624 then Danielle d...
Continuing our 624 analysis of Ed McBain's short story EYE WITNESS, we are talking through the Five Commandments of Storytelling. This is th...
Continuing our 624 analysis of Ed McBain's short story EYE WITNESS, we are talking through the Five Commandments of Storytelling. This is th...
Continuing our 624 analysis of Ed McBain's short story EYE WITNESS, we are talking through the Five Commandments of Storytelling. This is a...
There are four story analysis questions you must answer for every scene in your story: 1. What are the Avatars literally doing? 2. What are...
There are four story analysis questions you must answer for every scene in your story: 1. What are the Avatars literally doing? 2. What are...
Is it first or third person? Past or present tense? As you'll see in this week's podcast episode, Point of View is about way more than this....
Figuring out the Narrative Device for your story will unlock your writing in ways you never thought possible. There are three questions you...
How do you boil your story down into one "What If" statement? There are four parts to building out the answer to this question and Shawn, Le...
The genre of your story is way more than one thing. In this episode of the Story Grid Podcast, learn the five important pieces of understand...
Shawn discusses the two sides to every story.
Shawn and Kim go back to the beginning and discuss the origins of Story Grid.
Shawn Coyne walks through the role you, as the Artist, plays in getting your own wants, needs and desires into your story.
Shawn Coyne discusses the role backstory plays in your character's wants, needs, and desires.
Shawn Coyne walks through character wants, needs, and desires and how they impact your storytelling.
Shawn and Kim discuss Objects of Desire and how they work with your characters and storytelling.
Continuing the discussion on the three different types of Beats that build up to Scenes, how do Expository Beats work inside a scene?
Continuing the discussion on the three different types of Beats that build up to Scenes, how do Passive Beats work inside a scene?