{"id":2840,"date":"2015-06-11T07:13:29","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T14:13:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/?p=2840"},"modified":"2015-06-11T07:13:29","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T14:13:29","slug":"recommended-for-writers-the-story-grid-by-shawn-coyne","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/2015\/06\/11\/recommended-for-writers-the-story-grid-by-shawn-coyne\/","title":{"rendered":"Recommended for Writers: The Story Grid by Shawn Coyne"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1eLZnG1\" target=\"_blank\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2841\" src=\"http:\/\/bestfantasynovel.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/Story-Grid-cover-232x300.jpg\" alt=\"Story Grid-cover\" width=\"232\" height=\"300\" \/><\/a>The classic book on outlining, originally\u00a0written for screenplays, is Blake Snyder&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1Gh6pf1\" target=\"_blank\">Save the Cat<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>For some examples of how I use the Snyder outline, and other outlining methods I use, you can peek at some posts I did for NaNoWriMo:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p4bDYn-4N\" target=\"_blank\">How To Create A Three Act Beat Sheet<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p4bDYn-4C\" target=\"_blank\">My Favorite Outlining Method<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wp.me\/p4bDYn-3W\" target=\"_blank\">How To Make Your Own Sticky-Note Outlining Kit<\/a><\/p>\n<p>So obviously, I like the Blake Snyder outline, and so do a lot of others.\u00a0There are a lot of books that teach the basic principles of Outlining, but few that are substantial enough that they add\u00a0anything new to what Snyder said first and better.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1eLZnG1\" target=\"_blank\">The Story Grid<\/a>, however, is a full of gold. It takes the standard Outline and beefs it up for the Big Leagues. The key difference? <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1eLZnG1\" target=\"_blank\">The Story Grid<\/a>\u00a0attacks the specifics of Genres. Not all Genre story arcs are covered in depth, but enough to convey the idea that there is no one formula to fit all.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ll be discussing what I&#8217;ve learned from this book and how I apply it in my posts (later this month), &#8220;What are the Obligatory Scenes for Genre Fiction?&#8221; and &#8220;How to Use Reiteration in Romance.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Buy <a href=\"http:\/\/amzn.to\/1eLZnG1\" target=\"_blank\">The Story Grid: What Good Editors Know<\/a> by Shawn Coyne<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The classic book on outlining, originally\u00a0written for screenplays, is Blake Snyder&#8217;s Save the Cat. For some examples of how I use the Snyder outline, and other outlining methods I use, you can peek at some posts I did for NaNoWriMo: How To Create A Three Act Beat Sheet My Favorite Outlining Method How To Make [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[400,422,577],"tags":[686,696],"class_list":["post-2840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plot-bunnies","category-recommended-for-writers","category-writing","tag-outlining","tag-recommended-for-writers"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/taramayastales.com\/bestfantasynovel\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}