Story Grid Writing Podcast

Hero, Victim and Perpetrator: The Must-Have Relationships in Your Story

Sep 8, 2022

56:55

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The Police Station Is My Oasis

03:01

The Context of Your Story

04:41

What's the Point of the Wedging in T in the Opening?

02:49

Introduction

2min

How to Make the Prosecutor More Comprehensible

5min

I Loved That Trap!

1min

I Don't Know if the Cop Is Still Alive When He Stole the Badge

2min

What's the Most Important Component of the Theft?

2min

The Masterwork Pattern - The Breakdown

2min

The Master Work Scene - Is That a Warrior?

2min

I Think the a Clue That Wilson Has Seen Him Before Is Next Important

2min

Was It a Bad Read on Leslie Orshawn?

2min

10.

The Set Up - Wilson and Randall, the Killer and the Punisher

3min

11.

What's the Relationship Between Randall and Wilson?

4min

12.

Story Grid - The Process of Breakdown

3min

13.

I'm Going to Stop You There, Right?

3min

14.

The Context of Your Story

5min

15.

I'm Going to Have Power Over the Power. That's Awesome.

1min

16.

How to Write a Short Story - The Impersonal Relationship

2min

17.

Blackmail

2min

18.

The Shirt Is New, Right?

3min

19.

What's the Point of the Wedging in T in the Opening?

3min

20.

I Didn't Love Forged as That Verb in That First Sentence

2min

21.

I Don't Think of It as a Wedge

2min

22.

The Police Station Is My Oasis

3min

23.

The Story Grid Podcast - Episode 5

2min

Who is the Hero, Victim, and Perpetrator in your story?

What are the relationships between each of them?

The more vague or ungrounded each of these relationships are, the more the story will not read as believable.

This is the focus Danielle, Leslie, and Shawn take on Tim's scene this week.

Click here to read Tim's scene: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1OQd5NxTcn2JLwrphueCX91A4wXN9BEQFBYwbyN7NJ1M/edit?usp=sharing

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