Story Grid Podcast

How do you boil your story down into one "What If" statement? There are four parts to building out the answer to this question and Shawn, Leslie, Danielle, and Tim walk through it together in this week's episode.

The genre of your story is way more than one thing. In this episode of the Story Grid Podcast, learn the five important pieces of understanding your genre — Time, Style, Structure, Reality, and Content.

Shawn discusses the two sides  to every story.

Shawn and Kim go back to the beginning and discuss the origins of Story Grid. 

Shawn Coyne walks through the role you, as the Artist, plays in getting your own wants, needs and desires into your story.

Shawn Coyne discusses the role backstory plays in your character's wants, needs, and desires.

Shawn Coyne walks through character wants, needs, and desires and how they impact your storytelling.

Shawn and Kim discuss Objects of Desire and how they work with your characters and storytelling.

Continuing the discussion on the three different types of Beats that build up to Scenes, how do Expository Beats work inside a scene?

Continuing the discussion on the three different types of Beats that build up to Scenes, how do Passive Beats work inside a scene?

There are three different types of Beats that build up to Scenes. How do Active Beats work inside a scene?

What kind of thinking has to change when you are switching modes from writing to editing?

It can get confusing switching lenses between Macro and Micro storytelling already. Now, what happens when you layer in the Story Grid Trinity? 

Continuing the discussion on the Story Grid Trinity, Shawn Coyne and Kimberly Kessler discuss the On-the-Surface level of the trinity and how the relates to external genres.

Shawn and Kim discuss The Bell Jar and where it sits in the Story Grid landscape. Use the coupon code "podcast" to get 20% off all the Story Grid titles at storygrid.com/books

Shawn Coyne and Kimberly Kessler discuss the Story Grid Trinity and how this works with internal genres. Also checkout the Story Grid Masterwork Guide to Hamilton by Lin-Manuel Miranda at storygrid.com/books and get 20% off with the coupon "podcast".

A listener asks a bold question: Can the Story Grid tools and methodology make the Masterworks we read and love better? Shawn has a great answer for this week's question.

At Story Grid, we spend a lot of time studying and analyzing Masterworks, but how do you know when a book is a Masterwork? Shawn addresses this question in this week's episode.

This week's listener question is, "How do you Write Dialogue when you are an introvert?". Shawn answers this question and gives recommendations for next steps for writers.

How does the Story Grid Trinity apply to Big Idea, How-to, Narrative nonfiction, and Memoir? Shawn dives into this question on this week's episode.