Story Grid Writing Podcast
By Shawn Coyne and Tim Grahl
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Aug 16, 2023
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really great content. emotionally difficult at times, but in an edifying way.
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Description
Helping you become a better writer.
Join Shawn Coyne, author of Story Grid and a top editor for 30+ years, and Tim Grahl, struggling writer, as they discuss the ins and outs of what makes a story great.
More at www.StoryGrid.com.
| Episode | Date |
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The Final Episode
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May 25, 2023 |
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Crazy Rich Asians: Part 4 - What Writers Can Learn
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May 11, 2023 |
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Crazy Rich Asians: Part 3 - Genre Conventions and Story Theme
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May 04, 2023 |
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Crazy Rich Asians: Part 2 - 5 Commandments of Storytelling
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Apr 20, 2023 |
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Crazy Rich Asians: Part 1 - Is this a RomCom?
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Apr 13, 2023 |
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John Wick Analysis: Part 4 - What Writers Can Learn and Obligatory Moments
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Apr 06, 2023 |
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John Wick Analysis: Part 3 - Genre Conventions and Five Commandments
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Mar 30, 2023 |
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John Wick Analysis: Part 2 - Acts and Structure
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Mar 23, 2023 |
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John Wick Analysis: Part 1 - Genre and Controlling Idea
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Mar 16, 2023 |
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Line Edits: Putting the Final Touches on Eye Witness
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Nov 03, 2022 |
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Final Edits of a Short Story: Beat Construction and 624 Analysis
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Oct 27, 2022 |
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Does Tim Actually Get It Right? How to Nail the Narrative Device
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Oct 20, 2022 |
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How to Connect with Characters: Finding the Motivation and Shadow in Yourself
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Oct 06, 2022 |
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Writing or Just Pretending? When there is Zero Flow and Everything is $h*t
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Sep 29, 2022 |
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Conflict and Emotional Connection: Every Beat, Trope, and Scene Must Have These
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Sep 24, 2022 |
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Who's the Most Guilty Person in Your Story? Hero, Victim, and Villain - Part 2
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Sep 15, 2022 |
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Hero, Victim and Perpetrator: The Must-Have Relationships in Your Story
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Sep 08, 2022 |
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The Impact of a Story Theme: An Interview with Scott Mann and Randle Surles about the book Operation Pineapple Express
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Sep 06, 2022 |
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Truth in Fiction: How to Write and Develop Believable Characters
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Sep 01, 2022 |
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Narrative Device: This Affects Every Single Word You Write
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Aug 25, 2022 |
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Telling the Truth About Writing: Is this Podcast Worth Doing?
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Aug 18, 2022 |
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Writing Emotional Pain: How to Care About Your Protagonist
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Aug 11, 2022 |
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Getting the Protagonist Right: When and How to Switch the Main Character
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Aug 04, 2022 |
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Two Factor Problems: The Must-Have for Writing Captivating Stories
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Jul 21, 2022 |
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624 Break Down: The Surprising Mistake in Tim's First Draft
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Jul 14, 2022 |
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First Draft Feedback: 3 Editors Give Honest Writing Analysis - Part 2
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Jul 07, 2022 |
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First Draft Feedback: 3 Editors Give Honest Writing Analysis - Part 1
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Jun 30, 2022 |
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How to Plan a Short Story Based on a Masterwork
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Jun 23, 2022 |
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Story Tropes: Building Blocks of Scenes
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Jun 16, 2022 |
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Beat Breakdown: Analyzing Writing Line-by-Line - Part 3
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Jun 09, 2022 |
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Beat Breakdown: Analyzing Writing Line-by-Line - Part 2
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Jun 02, 2022 |
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Beat Breakdown: Analyzing Writing Line-by-Line - Part 1
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May 26, 2022 |
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624 Review + Trope and Beat Introduction
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May 19, 2022 |
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Five Commandments of Storytelling - Part 3
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May 12, 2022 |
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Five Commandments of Storytelling - Part 2
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May 05, 2022 |
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Five Commandments of Storytelling - Part 1
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Apr 28, 2022 |
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What is happening in your story? (Part 2)
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Apr 21, 2022 |
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What is happening in your story? (Part 1)
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Apr 14, 2022 |
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Point of View: It's WAY more than 1st, 2nd, and 3rd
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Apr 07, 2022 |
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Narrative Device: 3 Questions to Nail the Point of View for Your Story
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Mar 31, 2022 |
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The "What If" for Your Story
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Mar 24, 2022 |
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The Genre Five Leaf Clover: The In-depth Process for Understanding Genre in Your Story
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Mar 16, 2022 |
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Two Sides to Every Story
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Feb 10, 2022 |
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The History of the Story Grid Universe
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Feb 03, 2022 |
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The Artist's Wants, Needs, and Desires
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Jan 27, 2022 |
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Backstory and an Avatar's Wants, Needs, and Desires
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Jan 20, 2022 |
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Crafting Story with Wants, Needs, and Desires
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Jan 13, 2022 |
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What are Objects of Desire?
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Jan 06, 2022 |
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How does a writer use Expository Beats to generate words?
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Nov 18, 2021 |
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How does a writer use Passive Beats to generate words?
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Nov 11, 2021 |
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How Does a Writer Use Active Beats to Generate Words?
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Nov 04, 2021 |
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What is an Editor Brain vs Writer Brain?
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Oct 28, 2021 |
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How does the Story Grid Trinity apply at the Macro vs Micro levels?
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Oct 21, 2021 |
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Does On-the-Surface mean External Genre?
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Oct 14, 2021 |
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What is happening with The Bell Jar?
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Oct 07, 2021 |
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How does the Story Grid Trinity apply to Global Internal Genres?
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Sep 30, 2021 |
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Can Story Grid improve on Masterworks?
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Jul 29, 2021 |
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What defines a Masterwork?
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Jul 15, 2021 |
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How to Write Dialogue (for Introverts)
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Jun 24, 2021 |
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Story Grid Trinity for Nonfiction
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Jun 17, 2021 |
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Quadrant 4 of the Heroic Journey 2.0
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Jun 10, 2021 |
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Story Grid Trinity - Beyond the Surface
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Jun 03, 2021 |
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Story Grid Trinity - Above the Surface
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May 27, 2021 |
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Story Grid Trinity - On the Surface
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May 20, 2021 |
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Story Grid Trinity
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May 13, 2021 |
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Quadrant 3 of the Hero's Journey 2.0
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Dec 10, 2020 |
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Worldbuilding in Hero's Journey 2.0
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Dec 03, 2020 |
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First Two Steps in the Hero's Journey 2.0
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Nov 26, 2020 |
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Introducing Heroic Journey 2.0
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Nov 19, 2020 |
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Finishing the First Draft
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Nov 05, 2020 |
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Interview with Author Michael McClellan - Part 3
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Oct 29, 2020 |
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Interview with Author Michael McClellan - Part 2
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Oct 22, 2020 |
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Interview with Author Michael McClellan - Part 1
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Oct 16, 2020 |
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Chapter 24 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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Sep 07, 2020 |
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Chapter 23 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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Sep 06, 2020 |
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Chapter 22 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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Sep 05, 2020 |
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Chapter 21 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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Sep 04, 2020 |
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Chapter 20 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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Sep 03, 2020 |
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Chapter 19 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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Sep 02, 2020 |
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Chapter 18 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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Sep 01, 2020 |
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Chapter 17 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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Aug 31, 2020 |
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Chapter 16 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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Aug 30, 2020 |
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Chapter 15 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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Aug 29, 2020 |
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Chapter 14 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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Aug 28, 2020 |
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Chapter 13 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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Aug 27, 2020 |
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Chapter 12 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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Aug 26, 2020 |
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Chapter 11 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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Aug 25, 2020 |
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Chapter 10 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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Aug 24, 2020 |
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Chapter 9 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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Aug 23, 2020 |
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Chapter 8 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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Aug 22, 2020 |
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Chapter 7 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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Aug 21, 2020 |
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Chapter 6 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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Aug 20, 2020 |
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Chapter 5 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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Aug 19, 2020 |
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Chapter 4 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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Aug 18, 2020 |
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Chapter 3 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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Aug 17, 2020 |
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Chapter 2 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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Aug 16, 2020 |
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Chapter 1 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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Aug 15, 2020 |
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Intro - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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Aug 14, 2020 |
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Multiple Storylines in One Book
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Apr 10, 2020 |
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Scene 1, Book 2
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Apr 02, 2020 |
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Phere and COVID-19
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Mar 26, 2020 |
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Systems and Chaos in Your Novel
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Mar 19, 2020 |
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Planning Book 2 in a Trilogy
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Mar 05, 2020 |
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Which book should I write?
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Feb 20, 2020 |
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Planning the Hero, Victim, and Villain
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Feb 13, 2020 |
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Introducing: Story Grid Showrunners Podcast
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Feb 06, 2020 |
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How to Start a New Novel
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Jan 30, 2020 |
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How to Analyze a Scene
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Jan 23, 2020 |
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What is a Contender Guide?
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Jan 16, 2020 |
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Story Grid Guild
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Dec 20, 2019 |
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Story Grid Publishing
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Dec 12, 2019 |
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What is wrong with publishing?
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Nov 28, 2019 |
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Making Big Idea Nonfiction Work
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Nov 14, 2019 |
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The Must-Haves of Big Idea Nonfiction
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Nov 08, 2019 |
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Breaking Down the Big Idea
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Oct 31, 2019 |
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Mastering Nonfiction
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Oct 24, 2019 |
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Lifting Off For Planet Performance
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Aug 15, 2019 |
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Live in the Process, Not for the Result
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Aug 08, 2019 |
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Talent, Inspiration and Blue Collar Work
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Aug 01, 2019 |
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Anne's First Scenes
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Jul 25, 2019 |
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Completing the Micro Analysis
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Jul 18, 2019 |
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Editor View vs Writer View
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Jul 11, 2019 |
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Micro Beats and Hidden Story Meanings
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Jul 04, 2019 |
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Brokeback Mountain: Defining the Characters
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Jun 27, 2019 |
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Brokeback Mountain: The Foolscap
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Jun 20, 2019 |
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Launching the Masterwork Experiment
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Jun 13, 2019 |
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2nd Guessing Your Writing
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May 23, 2019 |
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How to Write a Great Scene
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May 16, 2019 |
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Why Can't I Finish My Book?
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May 02, 2019 |
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5 Commandments and Pheres
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Apr 25, 2019 |
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The Atomic Theory of Storytelling
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Apr 12, 2019 |
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The Math of Storytelling
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Apr 04, 2019 |
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What is a Phere?
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Mar 28, 2019 |
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The Editor's 6 Core Questions - Part 2
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Feb 28, 2019 |
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The Editor's 6 Core Questions - Part 1
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Feb 22, 2019 |
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How Important is Genre?
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Feb 14, 2019 |
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Creating a 2nd Edition
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Feb 07, 2019 |
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How to Refine a Manuscript
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Jan 26, 2019 |
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Hero Archetypes and Grounding Reality
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Jan 19, 2019 |
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Hero's Journey Archetypes - Part 2
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Jan 11, 2019 |
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Hero's Journey Archetypes - Part 1
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Jan 04, 2019 |
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Why Story Grid Is Different
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Dec 21, 2018 |
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A New Tool to Fight Resistance
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Dec 13, 2018 |
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Categorizing Scenes
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Nov 30, 2018 |
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How to Spreadsheet Your Novel
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Nov 15, 2018 |
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The Job of an Editor
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Nov 08, 2018 |
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Shawn's First Read of Tim's 2nd Draft
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Nov 02, 2018 |
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Why all the suffering?
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Oct 26, 2018 |
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World Building 101
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Oct 11, 2018 |
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Creating Believable Characters
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Oct 04, 2018 |
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Crafting a Great Ending
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Sep 27, 2018 |
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How to Finish Your Book
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Sep 20, 2018 |
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Is it time for Tim to quit?
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Sep 13, 2018 |
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How to Write a Great Villain
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Sep 06, 2018 |
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Shawn's Dark Night of the Soul
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Aug 23, 2018 |
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When is the book done?
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Aug 17, 2018 |
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Writing an Action Sequence
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Aug 09, 2018 |
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Game Theory in Story
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Aug 02, 2018 |
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Chaos vs Order
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Jul 27, 2018 |
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The Aftermath
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Jul 20, 2018 |
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Special Guest: Steven Pressfield
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Jul 11, 2018 |
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Running Down a Dream
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Jul 05, 2018 |
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Getting the Value Shifts Right
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Jun 21, 2018 |
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Fixing the Most Important Scene
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Jun 15, 2018 |
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Deep Dive Into Tim's 15 Scenes (Part 2)
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Jun 07, 2018 |
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Deep Dive Into Tim's 15 Scenes (Part 1)
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May 31, 2018 |
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Special Guest: Courtney Harrell
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May 24, 2018 |
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15 Most Important Scenes
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May 17, 2018 |
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Restarting an Old Project
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May 10, 2018 |
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What Does Shawn Think? - Part 2
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May 03, 2018 |
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What does Shawn think?
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Apr 19, 2018 |
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Book is Done! Now What?
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Apr 12, 2018 |
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Q&A: Miniplot, Editors, and Genre
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Apr 06, 2018 |
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Put the Darkness on Paper
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Mar 29, 2018 |
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Interview: Ryan Holiday
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Mar 22, 2018 |
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Tell Your Story
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Mar 15, 2018 |
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Truth vs truth
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Mar 08, 2018 |
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Finding My Why
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Mar 01, 2018 |
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The Middle of the Middle
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Feb 22, 2018 |
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Building Your Novel's World
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Feb 15, 2018 |
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Slogging the Middle Build
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Feb 08, 2018 |
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Die Hard and Tim's Middle Build
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Feb 01, 2018 |
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Editor Roundtable: Alien
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Jan 25, 2018 |
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Die Hard
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Jan 18, 2018 |
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The Story Grid Spreadsheet
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Jan 11, 2018 |
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Editor's 6 Core Questions - Part 2
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Dec 22, 2017 |
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Editor's 6 Core Questions - Part 1
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Dec 14, 2017 |
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The 5 Commandments of Storytelling (Revisited)
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Dec 07, 2017 |
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Myths of Publishing
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Nov 30, 2017 |
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I'm Freaking Out
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Nov 23, 2017 |
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Rework or Keep Writing?
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Nov 16, 2017 |
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What Shawn has learned
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Nov 02, 2017 |
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The 100th
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Oct 26, 2017 |
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NaNoWriMo and Story Grid
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Oct 19, 2017 |
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Go Back to the Genre
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Oct 12, 2017 |
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What Does the Villain Want?
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Oct 06, 2017 |
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Our Past, Present, and Future
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Sep 21, 2017 |
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Q&A - Part 3
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Sep 14, 2017 |
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Q&A - Part 2
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Sep 07, 2017 |
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Q&A - Part 1
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Sep 01, 2017 |
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Helping Others Become Better Writers
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Aug 25, 2017 |
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Specificity for Non-Fiction Storytelling
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Aug 17, 2017 |
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The Craft of Non-fiction
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Aug 03, 2017 |
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Non-fiction Conventions and Obligatory Scenes
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Jul 27, 2017 |
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Editing Non-Fiction
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Jul 21, 2017 |
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Planning the 2nd Draft
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Jul 13, 2017 |
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Creating a Story Grid - Part 2
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Jul 06, 2017 |
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Creating a Story Grid - Part 1
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Jun 29, 2017 |
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The Hero's Journey - Moments
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Jun 22, 2017 |
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The Hero's Journey - Archetypes
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Jun 15, 2017 |
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Part 2 - The Foolscap Story Grid
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Jun 08, 2017 |
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The Foolscap Story Grid
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May 26, 2017 |
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Micro to Macro: Editing Your First Draft
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May 18, 2017 |
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Spreadsheeting the First Draft
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May 11, 2017 |
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First Draft is Done. Now what?
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May 04, 2017 |
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The End?
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Apr 27, 2017 |
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Putting Off the Inevitable
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Apr 20, 2017 |
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The Race to the Finish
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Apr 13, 2017 |
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Just Skip to the End
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Apr 06, 2017 |
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Nailing the End of Your Book
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Mar 30, 2017 |
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Fear of Your Doing Your Best
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Mar 23, 2017 |
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Beginning the Ending Payoff
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Mar 16, 2017 |
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Finishing the Middle Build
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Mar 09, 2017 |
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Character Trumps Plotting
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Feb 09, 2017 |
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The Big Middle Build Moments
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Feb 02, 2017 |
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Correctly Progressively Complicating Your Scenes
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Jan 26, 2017 |
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How to finish your 1st draft
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Jan 19, 2017 |
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Dialing in the Sequence
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Jan 12, 2017 |
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Back to the 5 Commandments of Storytelling
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Jan 05, 2017 |
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Starting Your Middle Build
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Dec 29, 2016 |
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How Genre Affects Your Story
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Dec 22, 2016 |
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Scenes and Sequences for your Middle Build
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Dec 15, 2016 |
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How long will this take?
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Dec 08, 2016 |
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LIVE with Shawn and Tim
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Dec 01, 2016 |
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What is the Setting for your Novel?
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Nov 24, 2016 |
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World Building in Your Novel
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Nov 17, 2016 |
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Planning Your Middle Build
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Nov 10, 2016 |
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Finishing the Beginning Hook
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Nov 03, 2016 |
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Moving from Scenes to Sequences
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Oct 27, 2016 |
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How to Write a Great Love Story
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Oct 20, 2016 |
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The Most Important Genre
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Oct 13, 2016 |
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Getting the Rewrites Right
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Oct 06, 2016 |
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Listener Questions and More Rewrites
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Sep 29, 2016 |
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How to Rewrite Scenes
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Sep 22, 2016 |
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Still... Critiquing Tim's Beginning Hook
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Sep 15, 2016 |
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Critiquing Tim's Beginning Hook
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Sep 08, 2016 |
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Story Grid and Non-fiction
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Sep 01, 2016 |
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The Great Hedonometer
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Aug 25, 2016 |
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Turning Pro as a Writer
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Aug 18, 2016 |
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There are only 6 stories
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Aug 11, 2016 |
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What Good Editors Know
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Aug 04, 2016 |
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Calibrating Your Scenes
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Jul 28, 2016 |
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Villains and Inciting Incidents
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Jul 21, 2016 |
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Pub 101: How to Work With Your Publisher
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Jul 14, 2016 |
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Pub 101: Finding an Agent and Selling Your Book
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Jul 07, 2016 |
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Pub 101: Trade vs Indie Publishing and Backstory
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Jun 30, 2016 |
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Special Guest: Steven Pressfield - Part 2
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Jun 23, 2016 |
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Special Guest: Steven Pressfield - Part 1
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Jun 16, 2016 |
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Writing Your 2nd Draft
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Jun 09, 2016 |
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Getting Your Big Scenes Right
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Jun 02, 2016 |
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What do your characters want? (plus, Tim gets frustrated)
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May 26, 2016 |
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Finding a Marketable Genre
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May 19, 2016 |
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Getting Unstuck
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May 12, 2016 |
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The 2 big questions to ask your first draft
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May 05, 2016 |
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First draft is done. Now what?
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Apr 28, 2016 |
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Can you learn to write better (without trying)?
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Apr 21, 2016 |
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How to Write Faster
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Apr 14, 2016 |
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Do you have to be depressed to be a good writer?
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Apr 07, 2016 |
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When to get feedback from other writers
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Mar 31, 2016 |
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What if my writing sucks?
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Mar 24, 2016 |
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What is the Theme of your Story?
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Mar 17, 2016 |
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How to plot and outline your story
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Mar 09, 2016 |
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Creating great writing habits
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Mar 03, 2016 |
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How to Story Grid a Book
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Feb 24, 2016 |
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Can I just rip off Harry Potter?
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Feb 17, 2016 |
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Shawn rips apart Tim's scene (again)
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Feb 10, 2016 |
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Where do great story ideas come from?
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Feb 03, 2016 |
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Better Non-fiction with Story Grid
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Jan 27, 2016 |
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How to write a great beginning hook
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Jan 20, 2016 |
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Units of Story (beats, scenes, acts, etc)
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Jan 13, 2016 |
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The 5 Commandments of Storytelling
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Jan 06, 2016 |
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The Martian and A Christmas Carol
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Dec 23, 2015 |
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The 8 stages of grief/writing
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Dec 16, 2015 |
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Point of View and Narrative Device
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Dec 09, 2015 |
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The Mathematics of Storytelling
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Dec 02, 2015 |
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6 questions (good) editors ask
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Nov 25, 2015 |
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Shawn rips apart Tim's scene
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Nov 18, 2015 |
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How not to waste 100k words
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Nov 11, 2015 |
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How does Stephen King write?
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Nov 04, 2015 |
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Diving deep into genre
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Oct 28, 2015 |
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What is literary vs commercial fiction?
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Oct 21, 2015 |
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And that's what life is all about
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Oct 14, 2015 |