Story Grid Writing Podcast

Shawn, Leslie, Danielle and Tim face a hard question...

Is the Story Grid Podcast still worth doing?

You might be surprised by what they have to say.

What happens when you can't connect to your protagonist?

This week Tim makes some progress on his scene,  but it's still missing something. The soul in the writing isn't there.

Shawn, Leslie, and Danie…

There are times in your story when you need to switch out the protagonist. This can even happen in the middle of a scene or short story.

But how do you do it the right way?

This week Shawn, Danielle, a…

Great stories always answer two-factor problems.

In this episode we see how Tim's mistake of choosing the wrong protagonist messes up the two factor problem. Shawn, Danielle, and Leslie help him sort …

In this episode we start comparing the Story Grid 624 Analysis of the first draft of Tim's scene to EYE WITNESS by Ed McBain. Pretty quickly we see that Tim made one small mistake that ends up having…

Tim has written a first draft of his scene based on the in-depth analysis of Ed McBain's EYE WITNESS.

Listen in as Shawn, Danielle and Leslie give their feedback and start diving into the analysis of …

Tim has written a first draft of his scene based on the in-depth analysis of Ed McBain's EYE WITNESS.

Listen in as Shawn, Danielle and Leslie give their initial feedback and start diving into the ana…

How do we use all of this masterwork analysis to actually iterate our own short story?

In this week's episode, we look at the 624, Beat, and Trope analysis for the short story EYE WITNESS by Ed McBain…

What are Tropes and how can they actually help your writing?

Tropes are a toolbox of common components to build a certain kind of story. You can put these building blocks together to create a story th…

Learn how your line-by-line writing can be improved by the Story Grid Beat methodology.

In this episode, we show you the final line graph generated by our beat-by-beat analysis and how this can help y…

In this episode, Danielle continues walking Tim through every single line of Ed McBain's EYE WITNESS to help him identify the beats and what they are doing.

This is a perfect episode for the story ne…

Now that we have finished up the Story Grid 624 Analysis of Ed McBain's EYE WITNESS (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1WLiCyxIsCk), it's time to dive all the way down to the line-by-line writing. 

In t…

Continuing our 624 analysis of Ed McBain's short story EYE WITNESS, we are talking through the Five Commandments of Storytelling.

This is the third in a three part episode as we deep dive through each…

Continuing our 624 analysis of Ed McBain's short story EYE WITNESS, we are talking through the Five Commandments of Storytelling.

This is the second in a three part episode as we deep dive through eac…

Continuing our 624 analysis of Ed McBain's short story EYE WITNESS, we are talking through the Five Commandments of Storytelling.

This is a three part episode as we deep dive through each commandment.…

There are four story analysis questions you must answer for every scene in your story:

1. What are the Avatars literally doing?

2. What are the essential tactics of the Avatars?

3. What universal human…

There are four story analysis questions you must answer for every scene in your story:

1. What are the Avatars literally doing?

2. What are the essential tactics of the Avatars?

3. What universal human…

Is it first or third person? Past or present tense?

As you'll see in this week's podcast episode, Point of View is about way more than this.

See more here:
https://storygrid.com/point-of-view/

A story’s …

Figuring out the Narrative Device for your story will unlock your writing in ways you never thought possible. 

There are three questions you must answer: 

- Who is the Author of the story? (Hint... it'…