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Explore " action story" with insightful episodes like "The Awakening", "Rogue One: worldbuilding 101", "Chap35: Dirigibles [steampunk]", "A Wizard of Earthsea - Global Story" and "Season Three Preview" from podcasts like ""Jam-Rock Freestyle Radio", "Story Nerd", "The Writers Block", "Story Grid Writers' Room" and "Story Grid Writers' Room"" and more!
Episodes (6)
Rogue One: worldbuilding 101
Chap35: Dirigibles [steampunk]
Ex-airship marine George Ellison fights to bring down a zombie virus-carrying airship headed straight for Cony Island. But can he overcome his love for the pilot steering the ship..his ex-girlfriend?
A Wizard of Earthsea - Global Story
Get a bird’s-eye view of A Wizard of Earthsea while Leslie and Valerie offer a macro analysis of this fantasy origin story using Story Grid’s Editor’s Six Core Question. The 1968 story was written by Ursula K. Le Guin.
Season Three Preview
This season on the Story Grid Writers’ Room podcast, Leslie and Valerie are doing a full Story Grid macro analysis of A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin. We'll review the Editor’s Six Core Questions and look at each of the acts in detail.
The Story Grid Writer’s Room is a show dedicated to offering a practical approach to the Story Grid method so you can put it to work. Valerie and Leslie analyze stories and scenes to help you understand how to apply Story Grid tools to masterworks and your own story.
Action-Epic - The Spy Who Dumped Me
It’s international intrigue with comedy on the side on the Roundtable this week as Leslie continues to explore action plot conventions in The Spy Who Dumped Me. This 2018 action-epic-conspiracy film was directed by Susanna Fogel from a screenplay she wrote with David Iserson.
Each week one of the Story Grid Editors—Jarie Bolander, Valerie Francis, Anne Hawley, Kim Kessler, or Leslie Watts—pitches a film as an example of a significant story principle. The rest of us explore different aspects of the story so we can all understand it better.