Four Core Fiction: A Story Grid Short Story Anthology

Literature & Fiction

Watts, Leslie

Sperry, Shelley

Olson, Rebekah

Thorn, J.

Kessler, Kimberly

Monterusso, Rebecca

McGinn, Mark

Harrell, Courtney

Ramirez, Rachelle

Blair, Julia

Genre Fiction

Story Grid Publishing LLC

What if you could look inside a novel and see exactly how it works, like a doctor analyzing an x-ray or MRI scan? In The Story Grid Contenders Analysis Guide to Four Core Fiction the authors look deep into the heart of these short stories written by Story Grid Certified editors along with Story Grid founders Shawn Coyne and Tim Grahl. How does each scene break down and work on its own? The scene is the essential tool in a writer's arsenal. In this guide you will go beat-by-beat through each scene and look at how and why it works. Digging deep into a scene beat-by-beat is an amazing way to study writing. This Story Grid Contenders Analysis Guide is a valuable tool for any writer or editor interested in the art and science of storytelling. By showing you the inner workings of each beat-by-beat of the scene is the way to level up your craft.

Four Core Fiction: A Story Grid Contenders Analysis Guide

Business & Money

Skills

As writers, we all struggle to transform the messy raw materials in our minds into stories that will reach readers' hearts. When it works, it feels like magic. But what really makes that magic happen? A few essential components, which Story Grid calls conventions and obligatory moments, can span the distance between writers and readers. It's those conventions and moments that fulfill readers' expectations in every story-from gripping action tales to tender romances. In Conventions and Obligatory Moments, veteran Story Grid editors Kimberly Kessler and Leslie Watts provide the first comprehensive Story Grid guide to these essential elements of the writer's craft. Kessler and Watts illustrate each concept with examples from classic masterworks, including Treasure Island, Murder on the Orient Express, and Pride and Prejudice. And they situate conventions and obligatory moments within the larger world of the Story Grid methodology, including the Four Core Framework and the Five Commandments of Storytelling. They teach writers precisely how each genre's conventions set up critical changes, and how obligatory moments pay off those changes to meet readers' expectations. Ready to make your own magic?

Conventions and Obligatory Moments: The Must-haves to Meet Audience Expectations (Beats)

Reference

Words, Language & Grammar

You're a writer with 1,001 questions about how to fix your manuscript and you want answers. It's hard to see your whole story in enough detail to find all the problems, much less craft the best solutions. After months of effort, you're deep inside the characters and plot so you need a tool that's objective-something to magnify and explain each scene and show you how they all connect. The best way to answer the questions that are plaguing you is one you've probably never considered-a spreadsheet. In this beginner's guide, Story Grid Certified Editor Kimberly Kessler shows you how to turn a spreadsheet into a precision editing tool. Using the Story Grid approach, the spreadsheet becomes a microscope through which you can see scenes, sequences, and your entire story in high resolution. The Story Grid spreadsheet will save you time by quickly identifying the sources and locations of key problems. What you meant to say won't cloud your ability to see what's really on the page. With Kessler's expert guidance, you'll add the Story Grid spreadsheet to your writer's toolkit, you'll save your current manuscript, and improve all the stories that follow. "You have nothing to fear," says Kessler, "simply new connections to make."

The Story Microscope: The Surprising Way a Spreadsheet Can Save Your Manuscript (Beats)

According to Plan: a novel

Independently published

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