LETTER

My Holy-Heck Moment Using Story Grid to Design Fiction

Mickey Hadick
Nov 6 · 2 min read

This is more of a tease than anything, so you may get annoyed. (That’s both a prediction and permission.) I’m working on a longer article about this, but I’ve been hard at work on fiction for the past four months, thrashing away with Story Grid, and enjoyed an epiphany.

One of the main principles of Story Grid is to create a one-page summary of the entire story. This challenges your ability to hone in on the critical moments of your story.

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