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Story Grid Writers' Room

This is a show dedicated to helping you become a better writer using the Story Grid method, developed by Shawn Coyne. Each week this season, we analyze a scene or short story to get to the bottom of h... Read more

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Thriller Genre - Hot Fuzz

Thriller Genre - Hot Fuzz

In this week’s episode, the team takes a look at the 2007 British comedy thriller Hot Fuzz, written by Edgar Wright and ... Read more

24 Jan 2018

46mins

Ranked #2

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Special Episode - Story Grid 101: The Editor's Six Core Questions

Special Episode - Story Grid 101: The Editor's Six Core Questions

It’s Story Grid 101: The Editor’s Six Core Questions. What do they mean? Why do you need them? How do they help you edit... Read more

6 Jun 2018

59mins

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Status Genre - Gladiator

Status Genre - Gladiator

In this week’s episode, we examine the 2000 Status/Admiration epic Gladiator, written by David Franzoni, John Logan, and... Read more

1 Feb 2018

46mins

Ranked #4

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Bite Size Episode - How to Analyze a Scene

Bite Size Episode - How to Analyze a Scene

It’s 20 minutes of deep insight this time as Valerie Francis and Leslie Watts bring you a bite-size episode on how to an... Read more

22 Jan 2020

23mins

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Courtship Love Story - The Bridges of Madison County

Courtship Love Story - The Bridges of Madison County

It’s love, loss and longing this week as the Roundtable team crosses The Bridges of Madison County, the 1995 film writte... Read more

8 Feb 2018

58mins

Ranked #6

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Psychological Thriller - Gone Girl

Psychological Thriller - Gone Girl

This week the Roundtable team disappears into Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl, and comes back with a verdict of Psychological ... Read more

13 Jun 2018

42mins

Ranked #7

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Bite Size Edition - Too Much Information

Bite Size Edition - Too Much Information

What is exposition, and why should novelists be leery of it? Turns out there's brain science behind “Show Don't Tell.” E... Read more

8 May 2019

24mins

Ranked #8

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Bite Size Edition - Shawn on Reading

Bite Size Edition - Shawn on Reading

“It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but you are not well-read enough.” It’s 20 minutes of professional inspiration for write... Read more

20 Mar 2019

23mins

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Bite Size Episode - How to Plan A Novel

Bite Size Episode - How to Plan A Novel

It’s 20 minutes of deep insight this time as Jarie Bolander bring you a bite-size episode on how to plan a novel.Here on... Read more

11 Sep 2019

14mins

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Love Story - Sense and Sensibility

Love Story - Sense and Sensibility

The Roundtablers return to the love story this week with Sense and Sensibility. This Oscar-winning 1995 adaptation of Ja... Read more

10 Jul 2019

1hr 6mins

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Action - The Return of the King

Action - The Return of the King

Leslie concludes her epic examination of the action story on an epic scale with the epic-est epic of them all, The Lord ... Read more

4 Sep 2019

55mins

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Bite Size Episode - Vetting Your Book Idea

Bite Size Episode - Vetting Your Book Idea

It’s 20 minutes of deep insight this time as Kim Kessler bring you a bite-size episode on Vetting Your Book Idea. Here o... Read more

15 May 2019

19mins

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Worldview - Arrival

Worldview - Arrival

The Roundtable team touches down into the Worldview genre this week with the 2016 science fiction revelation drama Arriv... Read more

25 Jul 2018

49mins

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Status - Puzzle

Status - Puzzle

This week, Kim and the other Roundtablers continue piecing together global internal genre stories with the 2018 independ... Read more

1 May 2019

53mins

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Bite Size Edition - Beginning, Middle, and End

Bite Size Edition - Beginning, Middle, and End

It’s 20 minutes of deep insight as Valerie Francis brings you a bite-size episode on the Beginning, Middle and End of a ... Read more

13 Nov 2019

10mins

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Bite Size Episode - Character Development

Bite Size Episode - Character Development

It’s 20 minutes of insight this time as Valerie Francis and Leslie Watts bring you a bite-size episode on character deve... Read more

26 Feb 2020

22mins

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Psychological Thriller - Primal Fear

Psychological Thriller - Primal Fear

The multiple personalities around the Roundtable try to puzzle out whether the 1995 thriller Primal Fear works, and why—... Read more

3 Jul 2019

1hr 5mins

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Crime - Double Indemnity

Crime - Double Indemnity

This week the Roundtable team investigates the claims of Double Indemnity, the 1944 film noir classic about murder and i... Read more

4 Apr 2018

43mins

Ranked #19

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Innovating the Love Story - Harold and Maude

Innovating the Love Story - Harold and Maude

Can Jarie make the case that pairing an 18-year-old boy with a 79-year-old woman is truly an innovation on the Love Stor... Read more

19 Sep 2018

40mins

Ranked #20

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Worldview-Education - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

Worldview-Education - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society

This week, Kim takes a close look at The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, in order to study how a story’s ... Read more

25 Dec 2019

1hr

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