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How not to waste 100k words

Story Grid Writing Podcast

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The Importance of Knowing Your External and Internal Genres

Knowing what your external and internal genres are is really gonna be helpful because it'll it'll keep you away from making mistakes. Don't have both of them they always have to be sort of yin and yangin so at the end of the first act say you open with your external genre opens negative somebody loses their job and the internal genre is negative two At the end of act one you're gonna want your external to move a little bit positive so it's positive and your internal genre to remain negative then you want to flip them, that way there's sort of like the support you remember we were talking about something has to be surprising but inevitable this is howYou do the surprising part is

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