Talent, Inspiration and Blue Collar Work

Story Grid Writing Podcast

Shawn Coyne

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

4.8 • 767 Ratings

🗓️ 1 August 2019

⏱️ 53 minutes

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Summary

In Episode 8 of the Masterwork Experiment, Anne has a bit of a crisis: though she’s found a way to meet the demands of the experiment, the resulting story idea feels lifeless. Is she building a franken-story from someone else’s parts? How will she give it life? In response, Shawn delivers a rousing talk on talent, inspiration, and the blue-collar work that holds Resistance at bay.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to the Story Grid Masterwork Experiment. Before we get started today, I wanted to let listeners know about Story Grid Live, a gathering of writers serious about the craft of story. It's happening September 13th and 14th, 2019, in Nashville, Tennessee.
0:17.8	Story Grid has grown into a movement, followed by tens of thousands of writers from all over the
0:22.8	globe who are serious about their craft. This weekend event is going to be full of information,
0:29.5	inspiration, and expertise along with some food, fun, and nerdery with your fellow StoryGriders.
0:37.2	Story Grid Live 2019 is the place to be for writers
0:41.2	looking to deepen and grow their expertise in the craft of storytelling. It's time to step out of
0:47.2	your routine, to spend two days alongside other writers and storytellers like you. This is a chance
0:53.3	not only to learn, but to connect with
0:55.7	other amazing writers. Sean Coyne and Tim Grawl will be presenting, along with special guest, Stephen
1:01.6	Pressfield. I'll be there, and I hope you will too. Find out more at storygrid.com slash live.
1:09.4	That's storygrid.com slash live. Now on with our regular introduction.
1:15.2	My name is Anne Hawley, and I'm an experienced novelist trying to ground my craft more solidly in story grid methodology.
1:22.0	So I have agreed to be the lab rat in the masterwork experiment, which Sean Coyne is conducting as a test of his latest
1:29.3	writing and editing methods. In the masterwork experiment, Sean and I have analyzed
1:34.2	Brokeback Mountain down to the beat level, and last week I went away feeling discouraged by the
1:39.8	requirement to kill one of my characters. Many conversations and much soul-searching later,
1:46.3	I came up with an outline for a story that I could live with, but it felt like a Franken story
1:51.6	assembled from somebody else's parts, and I didn't see any way to give it life.
1:56.3	Sean's response to this conundrum is a rousing speech on talent, inspiration, and the blue-collar
2:02.1	work of the writer that's really the only thing the muse respects and resistance hates.
2:08.5	In this episode, I deliver my outline and my new point-of-view narrative device and face the
2:13.8	task of roughing out a draft in the next three weeks. Please note that there's a bit more strong language here than you usually find on this podcast.
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