• Quadrant 3 of the Hero's Journey 2.0
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• Worldbuilding in Hero's Journey 2.0
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• First Two Steps in the Hero's Journey 2.0
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• Introducing Hero's Journey 2.0
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• Finishing the First Draft
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• Interview with Author Michael McClellan - Part 3
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• Interview with Author Michael McClellan - Part 2
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• Interview with Author Michael McClellan - Part 1
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• Chapter 24 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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• Chapter 23 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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• Chapter 22 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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• Chapter 21 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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• Chapter 20 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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• Chapter 19 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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• Chapter 18 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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• Chapter 17 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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• Chapter 16 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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• Chapter 15 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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• Chapter 14 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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• Chapter 13 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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• Chapter 12 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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• Chapter 11 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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• Chapter 10 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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• Chapter 9 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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• Chapter 8 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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• Chapter 7 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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• Chapter 6 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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• Chapter 5 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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• Chapter 4 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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• Chapter 3 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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• Chapter 2 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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• Chapter 1 - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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• Intro - The Wonderful Wizard of Oz Masterwork Analysis
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• Multiple Storylines in One Book
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• Scene 1, Book 2
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• Phere and COVID-19
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• Systems and Chaos in Your Novel
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• Planning Book 2 in a Trilogy
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• Which book should I write?
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• Planning the Hero, Victim, and Villain
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• Introducing: Story Grid Showrunners Podcast
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• How to Start a New Novel
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• How to Analyze a Scene
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• What is a Contender Guide?
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• Story Grid Guild
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• Story Grid Publishing
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• What is wrong with publishing?
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• Making Big Idea Nonfiction Work
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• The Must-Haves of Big Idea Nonfiction
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• Breaking Down the Big Idea
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• Mastering Nonfiction
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• Lifting Off For Planet Performance
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• Live in the Process, Not for the Result
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• Talent, Inspiration and Blue Collar Work
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• Anne's First Scenes
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• Completing the Micro Analysis
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• Editor View vs Writer View
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• Micro Beats and Hidden Story Meanings
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• Brokeback Mountain: Defining the Characters
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• Brokeback Mountain: The Foolscap
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• Launching the Masterwork Experiment
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• 2nd Guessing Your Writing
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• How to Write a Great Scene
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• Why Can't I Finish My Book?
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• 5 Commandments and Pheres
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• The Atomic Theory of Storytelling
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• The Math of Storytelling
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• What is a Phere?
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• The Editor's 6 Core Questions - Part 2
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• The Editor's 6 Core Questions - Part 1
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• How Important is Genre?
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• Creating a 2nd Edition
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• How to Refine a Manuscript
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• Hero Archetypes and Grounding Reality
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• Hero's Journey Archetypes - Part 2
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• Hero's Journey Archetypes - Part 1
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• Why Story Grid Is Different
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• A New Tool to Fight Resistance
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• Categorizing Scenes
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• How to Spreadsheet Your Novel
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• The Job of an Editor
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• Shawn's First Read of Tim's 2nd Draft
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• Why all the suffering?
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• World Building 101
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• Creating Believable Characters
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• Crafting a Great Ending
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• How to Finish Your Book
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• Is it time for Tim to quit?
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• How to Write a Great Villain
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• Shawn's Dark Night of the Soul
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• When is the book done?
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• Writing an Action Sequence
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• Game Theory in Story
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• Chaos vs Order
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• The Aftermath
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• Special Guest: Steven Pressfield
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• Running Down a Dream
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• Getting the Value Shifts Right
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• Fixing the Most Important Scene
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• Deep Dive Into Tim's 15 Scenes (Part 2)
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• Deep Dive Into Tim's 15 Scenes (Part 1)
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• Special Guest: Courtney Harrell
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• 15 Most Important Scenes
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• Restarting an Old Project
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• What Does Shawn Think? - Part 2
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• What does Shawn think?
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• Book is Done! Now What?
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• Q&A: Miniplot, Editors, and Genre
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• Put the Darkness on Paper
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• Interview: Ryan Holiday
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• Tell Your Story
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• Truth vs truth
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• Finding My Why
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• The Middle of the Middle
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• Building Your Novel's World
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• Slogging the Middle Build
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• Die Hard and Tim's Middle Build
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• Editor Roundtable: Alien
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• Die Hard
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• The Story Grid Spreadsheet
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• Editor's 6 Core Questions - Part 2
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• Editor's 6 Core Questions - Part 1
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• The 5 Commandments of Storytelling (Revisited)
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• Myths of Publishing
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• I'm Freaking Out
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• Rework or Keep Writing?
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• What Shawn has learned
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• The 100th
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• NaNoWriMo and Story Grid
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• Go Back to the Genre
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• What Does the Villain Want?
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• Our Past, Present, and Future
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• Q&A - Part 3
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• Q&A - Part 2
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• Q&A - Part 1
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• Helping Others Become Better Writers
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• Specificity for Non-Fiction Storytelling
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• The Craft of Non-fiction
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• Non-fiction Conventions and Obligatory Scenes
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• Editing Non-Fiction
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• Planning the 2nd Draft
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• Creating a Story Grid - Part 2
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• Creating a Story Grid - Part 1
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• The Hero's Journey - Moments
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• The Hero's Journey - Archetypes
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• Part 2 - The Foolscap Story Grid
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• The Foolscap Story Grid
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• Micro to Macro: Editing Your First Draft
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• Spreadsheeting the First Draft
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• First Draft is Done. Now what?
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• The End?
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• Putting Off the Inevitable
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• The Race to the Finish
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• Just Skip to the End
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• Nailing the End of Your Book
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• Fear of Your Doing Your Best
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• Beginning the Ending Payoff
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• Finishing the Middle Build
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• Character Trumps Plotting
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• The Big Middle Build Moments
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• Correctly Progressively Complicating Your Scenes
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• How to finish your 1st draft
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• Dialing in the Sequence
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• Back to the 5 Commandments of Storytelling
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• Starting Your Middle Build
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• How Genre Affects Your Story
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• Scenes and Sequences for your Middle Build
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• How long will this take?
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• LIVE with Shawn and Tim
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• What is the Setting for your Novel?
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• World Building in Your Novel
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• Planning Your Middle Build
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• Finishing the Beginning Hook
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• Moving from Scenes to Sequences
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• How to Write a Great Love Story
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• The Most Important Genre
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• Getting the Rewrites Right
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• Listener Questions and More Rewrites
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• How to Rewrite Scenes
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• Still... Critiquing Tim's Beginning Hook
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• Critiquing Tim's Beginning Hook
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• Story Grid and Non-fiction
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• The Great Hedonometer
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• Turning Pro as a Writer
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• There are only 6 stories
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• What Good Editors Know
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• Calibrating Your Scenes
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• Villains and Inciting Incidents
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• Pub 101: How to Work With Your Publisher
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• Pub 101: Finding an Agent and Selling Your Book
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• Pub 101: Trade vs Indie Publishing and Backstory
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• Special Guest: Steven Pressfield - Part 2
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• Special Guest: Steven Pressfield - Part 1
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• Writing Your 2nd Draft
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• Getting Your Big Scenes Right
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• What do your characters want? (plus, Tim gets frustrated)
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• Finding a Marketable Genre
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• Getting Unstuck
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• The 2 big questions to ask your first draft
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• First draft is done. Now what?
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• Can you learn to write better (without trying)?
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• How to Write Faster
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• Do you have to be depressed to be a good writer?
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• When to get feedback from other writers
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• What if my writing sucks?
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• What is the Theme of your Story?
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• How to plot and outline your story
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• Creating great writing habits
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• How to Story Grid a Book
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• Can I just rip off Harry Potter?
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• Shawn rips apart Tim's scene (again)
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• Where do great story ideas come from?
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• Better Non-fiction with Story Grid
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• How to write a great beginning hook
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• Units of Story (beats, scenes, acts, etc)
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• The 5 Commandments of Storytelling
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• The Martian and A Christmas Carol
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• The 8 stages of grief/writing
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• What is narrative device?
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• The Mathematics of Storytelling
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• 6 questions (good) editors ask
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• Shawn rips apart Tim's scene
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• How not to waste 100k words
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• How does Stephen King write?
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• Diving deep into genre
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• What is literary vs commercial fiction?
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• And that's what life is all about
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