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The Story Grid
by Shawn Coyne
An editor's analytical system for diagnosing a manuscript: genre obligations, the foolscap page, the spreadsheet. Dense and engineering-minded.
Read it if…
you have a draft and want a rigorous way to fix it.
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Skip it if…
you have not finished a draft.
Try instead: Letters to a Young Writer →
Three things you will actually use
- Genre sets obligations.
- Every scene turns.
- Diagnose before rewriting.
Do this first
Fill out the foolscap page for your book.
Our verdict
Editing as engineering.
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