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What is happening in your story? (Part 1)

57m · Story Grid Writing Podcast · 14 Apr 08:00

There are four story analysis questions you must answer for every scene in your story:

 

1. What are the Avatars literally doing?

2. What are the essential tactics of the Avatars?

3. What universal human value has changed for one or more Avatars in the scene?

4. What Story Event sums up the scene’s global value change?

 

In this episode we make it through the first three! Next week is a whole episode on the fourth question.

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