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    Conventions and Obligatory Moments: The Must-haves to Meet Audience Expectations
    Point of View: Why Narrative Perspective Can Make or Break Your Story
    Action Story: The Primal Genre
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    By Shawn Coyne, Leslie Watts and Kim Kessler

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    About this series

    Finding the right point of view is one of the most important-and least understood-challenges writers face.


    Point of view extends far beyond the choice of first, second, o

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherStory Grid Publishing LLC
    Release dateApr 8, 2020
    Conventions and Obligatory Moments: The Must-haves to Meet Audience Expectations
    Point of View: Why Narrative Perspective Can Make or Break Your Story
    Action Story: The Primal Genre

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      Action Story: The Primal Genre
      Action Story: The Primal Genre

      Action Story: The Primal Genre

      Shawn Coyne
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      Action Stories speak to ancient human desires. Readers want to experience heart-stopping fear and excitement and learn lessons of survival.

      Action Stories speak to ancient human desires. Readers want to experience heart-stopping fear and excitement and learn lessons of survival.

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      Conventions and Obligatory Moments: The Must-haves to Meet Audience Expectations
      Conventions and Obligatory Moments: The Must-haves to Meet Audience Expectations

      Conventions and Obligatory Moments: The Must-haves to Meet Audience Expectations

      Kim Kessler
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      As writers, we all struggle to transform the messy raw materials in our minds into stories that will reach readers' hearts. When it works, it feels like magic. But what really makes that magic happen?

      As writers, we all struggle to transform the messy raw materials in our minds into stories that will reach readers' hearts. When it works, it feels like magic. But what really makes that magic happen?

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      Point of View: Why Narrative Perspective Can Make or Break Your Story
      Point of View: Why Narrative Perspective Can Make or Break Your Story

      Point of View: Why Narrative Perspective Can Make or Break Your Story

      Leslie Watts
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      Finding the right point of view is one of the most important-and least understood-challenges writers face. Point of view extends far beyond the choice of first, second, o

      Finding the right point of view is one of the most important-and least understood-challenges writers face. Point of view extends far beyond the choice of first, second, o

    Author

    Shawn Coyne

    SHAWN COYNE created, developed, and expanded the story analysis and problem- solving methodology The Story Grid throughout his quarter-century-plus book publishing career. A seasoned story editor, book publisher and ghostwriter, Coyne has also co-authored The Ones Who Hit the Hardest: The Steelers, The Cowboys, the '70s and the Fight For America's Soul with Chad Millman and Cognitive Dominance: A Brain Surgeon's Quest to Out-Think Fear with Mark McLaughlin, M.D. With his friend and editorial client Steven Pressfield, Coyne runs Black Irish Entertainment LLC, publisher of the cult classic book The War of Art. With his friend and editorial client Tim Grahl, Coyne oversees the Story Grid Universe, LLC, which includes Story Grid University and Story Grid Publishing.

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