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The Story Grid

What Good Editors Know

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The Story Grid

By: Shawn Coyne
Narrated by: Dan Portnoy
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What is the Story Grid?

The Story Grid is a tool developed by editor Shawn Coyne to analyze stories and provide helpful editorial comments. It's like a CT Scan that takes a photo of the global story and tells the editor or writer what is working, what is not, and what must be done to make what works better and fix what's not.

The Story Grid breaks down the component parts of stories to identify the problems. And finding the problems in a story is almost as difficult as the writing of the story itself (maybe even more difficult).

The Story Grid is a tool with many applications:

  • It will tell a writer if a story "works" or "doesn't work".
  • It pinpoints story problems but does not emotionally abuse the writer, revealing exactly where a story (not the person creating the story) has failed.
  • It will tell the writer the specific work necessary to fix that story's problems.
  • It is a tool to re-envision and resuscitate a seemingly irredeemable pile of paper stuck in an attic drawer.
  • It is a tool that can inspire an original creation.

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... but I'll have to let you know how things turn out at a later date.

This might have changed my life...

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one of those helpful books , good for ananylising structure and pivital perts and ways to implement and use in your book. well wtitten and not a teller but a teacher, worth it for sure - this is a good one

Quite good

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fantastic concept, a little hard to follow as an audiobook compared to hard copy, but still a head above others

Next level editing advice

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