The Story Grid Rule of 530 - Story Grid
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The Practice
- The Story Grid Rule of 530 is our recommendation for your daily writing practice.
- In the first part of your daily practice, you’ll write five hundred words of prose.
- After you’ve written your five hundred words, the second part of your daily practice is to spend thirty minutes doing story analysis of good stories using the Story Grid methodology.
- Story Grid helps you to understand the patterns in stories. To understand those patterns, you need to see how masterful writers put them into practice.
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How to Write the Five Hundred
- The key is to plan ahead and break down your writing into tasks that you can take on in your writing sessions. Once you have a small, concrete task to accomplish during your writing session, it will be easier for the words to flow.
- For your daily practice, focus on writing solid scenes. If you can get a scene right, you are well on your way to telling a story that works.
- The optimal length for a scene is 1,500 to 2,000 words, so you will be completing a scene every three to four days.
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The Thirty in 530
- Pick stories from across the twelve Story Grid content genres to develop an appreciation for different genres, including ones that you might not be familiar with.
- It’s important to develop a deep understanding of the genre that you want to write.
- Don’t worry: you’ll be analyzing lots of stories over your career. Think about your favorite stories, or the books that are most like the ones that you would like to write. Then pick one, and jump in.
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Analysing the Masterwork
Best place to start is with The Story Grid Editor’s Six Core Questions.
- What’s the genre?
- What are the conventions and obligatory scenes for that genre?
- What’s the Point of View?
- What are the objects of desire?
- What’s the controlling idea/theme?
- What is the Beginning Hook, the Middle Build, and Ending Payoff?
After you’ve practiced applying this level of analysis to a range of stories, you may find that you want to delve into creating a spreadsheet of a masterwork. That’s a good exercise to understand how the micro components add up to a macro story.
You might also work on your micro storytelling by analyzing and recreating scenes.
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