Get all the Story Grid Beats. Read all the Story Grid Beats.
If you want to level up your craft as a writer, this is the way to go.
Also, these then become a great source of reference when you are stuck with your writing (or doing your weekly Story Grid Guild worksheet).
I’d recommend bookmarking the pages that have concepts, or tools that you’d likely revisit to make it easier to consult these books.
Flow: 5/5
Actionability: 5/5
Mindset: 5/5
Some of My Highlights:
“If the global genre is that a story is about, then point of view is how we convey that story.”
“In fact, the vantage point should inform our decision to write in first-, second-, or third-person point of view. Not the other way around.”
“In these stories someone or something stands between the writer and the reader to tell the story.”
“A peripheral narrator who is not the protagonist is a useful option when the protagonist isn’t the best character to tell their story because of their vantage point.”
“A narrator as witness also works when the writer wants to conceal the protagonist’s thoughts.”
“Stories with multi-person narratives tend to be complex with several subplots and smaller story threads.”