Story Grid Writing Podcast

Writing Emotional Pain: How to Care About Your Protagonist

Aug 11, 2022

01:07:53

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Are You Going to Tell Me Where You Got the Toy?

05:52

The Second Deviation From the Original Story

03:35

How Do We Get Everything Lined Up So Everything Works Together?

02:17

Introduction

4min

The Story Grid Guild - Episode A

2min

The Story Grid Gild - Episode 4

2min

The Controlling Idea - The Short Story I Witnessed by Ed McBayes

3min

The First Thing You Have to Do After You've Experienced a Story

3min

What Is Your Controlling Idea?

2min

The Problem Space in the Story of Randal and the Detectives

4min

The Narrative Device

3min

How Do We Get Everything Lined Up So Everything Works Together?

2min

10.

Are You Going to Be Taken Seriously?

3min

11.

The Second Deviation From the Original Story

4min

12.

Do You Have to Care About the Controlling Idea?

2min

13.

Writing Is a Transformational Process

5min

14.

Are You Going to Tell Me Where You Got the Toy?

6min

15.

How to Transform a Crime Story

5min

16.

You Knew, I Sent You That, Um, That Right Up of That Story With the Snake and Everything

2min

17.

Story Grids

4min

18.

The Story Good Methodology

6min

19.

Transformation, a Uristic That Enables Transformation

3min

20.

The Six 24 Is Not Just an Analytical Structure

4min

What happens when you can't connect to your protagonist?

This week Tim makes some progress on his scene, but it's still missing something. The soul in the writing isn't there.

Shawn, Leslie, and Danielle talk through how to use emotional pain to connect into the story.

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