Author: Julia Blair
Sketchnoting the Story Grid Five Commandments
I love sketchnoting and I'm a huge bullet journal nerd so I thought I'd combine those things with storycraft, something else I'm crazy about. This is what happened!
A Story Grid Analysis of Tailchaser’s Song
I apply the Story Grid Editor's Six Core Questions to one of my favorite Talking Animal fantasies.
Fantasy is not a genre
Except that it is. In the Story Grid universe, we editors talk a lot about genre. Genre defines the core of a story. Genre is how the writer meets reader expectations. From it we derive conventions and obligatory scenes. In a very real sense, genre is the heart of the Story Grid method. According to … Continue reading Fantasy is not a genre
Rags to Written
Someone asked me, "Why do you call your website Rags to Written?" Aside from the fact that it has a good ring to it, the phrase suggests a transformation from unfinished to complete, from tattered to done. It encapsulates a writer's journey and it is, in and of itself, a story. In a sense, it … Continue reading Rags to Written