- 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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