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The Impact of a Story Theme: An Interview with Scott Mann and Randle Surles about the book Operation Pineapple Express

Story Grid Writing Podcast

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How to Write a True Story

Timothy Stanley: "This is a memoir, basically. And yet you've got to write it in a way where it's interesting and it has narrative drive" He says he was looking for a turning point slash crisis question for each of the 15 secondary characters that all have pieces of their story told trinologically through the book. The key was this, it's very uniquely written in that some of the scenes are like super, super short," writes Stanley.

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