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Product: Nobody Wants to Read Your Sh*t: And Other Tough-Love Truths to Make You a Better Writer
Brand: Audible
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There's a mantra real writers know but wannabe writers don’t. And the secret phrase is this: "Nobody wants to read your shit." Recognizing this painful truth is the first step in the writer's transformation from amateur to professional.

“When you understand that nobody wants to read your shit, you develop empathy. You acquire the skill that is indispensable to all artists and entrepreneurs - the ability to switch back and forth in your imagination from your own point of view as writer/painter/seller to the point of view of your reader/gallery-goer/customer. You learn to ask yourself with every sentence and every phrase: Is this interesting? Is it fun or challenging or inventive? Am I giving the reader enough? Is she bored? Is she following where I want to lead her?"

Product: The Story Grid 101: The Five First Principles of the Story Grid Methodology (Beats)
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What are the first principles in writing a story that works?

At Story Grid, it's easy to get distracted by the tools, spreadsheets, commandments, macro lense, micro lense, and on and on. However, all of this eventually comes back to five first principles.

In Story Grid 101, Story Grid founder Shawn Coyne distills 30 years of experience working with writers to build their stories into five principles:

Stories are made up of distinct parts, or units.
Stories are about change.
The change that happens in stories concerns Universal Human Values, the things that most people would say are necessary to survive and thrive in the world—or alternatively, the things that keep us from surviving and thriving.
Each unit of story has a Story Event, a one-sentence distillation of what’s happening and what value is changing.
Within each story unit we find a pattern of change we call the Five Commandments of Storytelling.

Also inside of Story Grid 101, Shawn also introduces you to the fundamental tools:

The Foolscap and Editor’s Six Core Questions
The Spreadsheet
The Infographic
The Four Core Framework
Story’s Boundaries

Story Grid 101 is for anyone new to Story Grid who needs a primer on how we approach our craft.