Randy Surles - Developmental Editor
Mentoring Authors One Scene at a Time – Thriller/Military/Non-Fiction/SF/Fantasy
Category: Blog
Writing Soldiers
My series of articles called Writing Soldiers are specifically written to help writers create more realistic military characters. These posts include, among other things, information on rank, uniforms, tactics, relationships, and other military environmental themes that are constantly confused or misunderstood in the movies,… Continue Reading “Writing Soldiers”
Jack Ryan S1E1
Jack Ryan, Amazon Prime’s Action Series, broken down by story elements to show why it’s a story well told.
5 Commandments – Mac
Tracking your Story Grid 5 Commandments for each scene, developing your story by tracking your progressive complications in each scene and ensuring that you are raising the stakes.
Metadata Function – Mac
How to use Scrivener Metadata function to track the Story Grid spreadsheet items.
Gentleman Jack Ep8
Analyzing the final episode (Episode 8) of Season 1 of Gentleman Jack for Story Grid elements.
Gentleman Jack Ep7
As we approach the end of the first season of this series, we can see that the conventions and obligatory scenes are playing out and that many of my predictions from the first episode have happened. Let’s continue with an evaluation of the 5… Continue Reading “Gentleman Jack Ep7”
Gentleman Jack Ep6
We’re going to sum up the story so far here. We should be approaching the end of the Middle Build, so let’s see how well the story follows the story grid and if it’s working. The Love Story So Far As I mentioned in… Continue Reading “Gentleman Jack Ep6”
5 Commandments – Win
Let’s start with the 5 commandments, the core of every Story Grid scene. On the windows version of Scrivener, you could put them in a couple places.
Gentleman Jack Ep5
The 5 Commandments of Gentleman Jack: Episode 5 These are the 5 Commandments of Storytelling as outlined by Shawn Coyne in his book The Story Grid: What good Editors Know. These commandments can be found in all stories that really work. Inciting Incident: Mr.… Continue Reading “Gentleman Jack Ep5”
Afghanistan 2002.
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