Narrative Device: This Affects Every Single Word You Write

Story Grid Writing Podcast

Shawn Coyne

Books, Language Learning, Authors, Education, Story, Publishing, Arts, Creativity, Writing, Fiction Writing

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🗓️ 25 August 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Who is telling your story? Who are they telling it to? Why are they telling it? This is the Narrative Device! The Narrative Device consists of three main components: - Author: The Author is someone who is capable of telling the POP premise as a story to shed light on the problem another person has. - SAM: The Single Audience Member is a person with a problem related to the one the protagonist faces in the POP premise. - Problem: A specific problem that the POP premise can shed light on. What Shawn, Danielle, and Leslie are trying to teach Tim this week is how this affects every single word of his writing. Click here to read Tim's scene: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1ugNstol1I3DGyIcOQ13pdkkgyKKGddFvAE7LH_-OLng/edit?usp=sharing To see the transcript of this episode, visit: https://storygrid.com/episode-273 — Get a free copy of our book Story Grid 101: The First Five Principles of the Story Grid Methodology: https://storygrid101.com This is Episode 273 of the Story Grid Podcast: https://storygrid.com/podcast

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the StoryGrid podcast. My name is Tim Graal. I'm the host and I'm a struggling
0:05.8	writer trying to figure out how to tell a story that works. Joining me shortly is Sean Coyne,
0:11.9	the creator and founder of StoryGrid and an editor and writer with over 30 years of experience.
0:18.6	Along with him is Danielle Kowalski, the chief academic officer of the Storygrid
0:23.2	Guild, and Leslie Watts, the editor-in-chief of Storygrid Publishing. Now this week, we're following up,
0:30.7	of course, on last week when we were asking this question of, is the podcast something we need
0:37.4	to keep doing? And if so,
0:39.4	how can we make it work for everybody that's involved? And I think what you'll see in this
0:45.1	week is that the new structure we're bringing to it is a lot more helpful. It was a lot more
0:50.5	helpful for me. I think it was a lot more helpful for the three of them as well.
0:55.5	And of course, we're using these red, blue, and green levels of being able to start at one level
1:02.6	and work our way through to see what's working and not working in the story.
1:08.0	And as you'll see, I have a lot of really clear insights on what's happening in my scene,
1:14.5	what should be happening in my scene. And I think set me up to start making some real progress
1:20.2	to actually get this scene working in the way that we wanted to work. And so it was a really great
1:26.5	episode. I think you're going to enjoy it.
1:28.9	Before we jump in, I just want to mention one more time
1:31.4	that right now, registration for the Storygrid Guild
1:34.1	is still open just for two more days when this comes out.
1:38.3	You can go to storygrid.com slash guild
1:40.8	to see all of the information there.
1:43.0	I'm really excited about this new semester.
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