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