Hello, and welcome to the Storygrid Masterwork podcast. We're part of a growing Storygrid

community that includes thousands of writers and editors from all over the world. We're dedicated

to helping writers improve their craft through books, podcasts, courses, and online forums.

In this Storygrid Masterwork podcast, we'll be reading and analyzing great books to learn

what makes them work so well.

I'm your host, Bib Bailey.

This season, we're reading The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, L. Frank Baum's classic novel

about a young girl's heroic journey.

In each episode, I'll read you one of the books 24

scenes and then we'll analyze the scene using story grid tools and methods in order to understand

how and why this story endures and still captivates readers more than a century after it was

written. Editor and publisher Sean Coyne developed StoryGrid during 30 years in the storytelling

business. He's applied his knowledge to dozens of best-selling fiction and nonfiction stories

and now shares what he's learned in the StoryGrid community. You'll find a full introduction to

StoryGrid's method of analyzing scenes in the first episode of this series. Now let's review how we'll analyze today's scene.

If you're already familiar with Story Grid,

you can skip ahead one minute 40 seconds to start listening to the scene.

We use five first principles to analyze any story.

First, we look at a story both as a whole and in smaller parts. In this podcast, we'll

dissect the wonderful Wizard of Oz in parts, scene by scene. Second, we look for a change

inside the world of the story because all stories are about change. Third, we figure out how the

change is linked to a universal human value,

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