I’m an editor, publisher, literary agent and writer. My twenty-five years of book publishing experience boils down to three words…The Story Grid.
By sharing my analytical method to edit stories of every genre, I hope to demystify the most primal and effective communication tool we have—Storytelling.
My goal is to make the work eminently practical…to remind writers that they are not the problem…the problems are the problem. The Story Grid pinpoints where the story weeds are and offers the tools necessary to root them out.
So what’s the big payoff for The Tipping Point? A step by step recipe to take a lousy product and make it a word of mouth sensation? A feel good celebration of mass behavior? Not even close. There is not a Hush Puppy or Muppet to be found in this crucial last section of Gladwell’s […]
Steve Pressfield and I are launching a crazy deal called THE BLACK IRISH MEGABUNDLE FOR WRITERS at his website tomorrow. It includes seven titles (including THE STORY GRID paperback and EBook, plus THE WAR OF ART, TURNING PRO, DO THE WORK, and a couple of extra goodies including a brand new book by Steve) for […]
One glance at The Story Grid Spreadsheet for Malcolm Gladwell’s Middle Build for The Tipping Point is all one needs to understand just how much work the man put into this book. The research and story examples he uses to build his Three Law argument to support his Tipping Point theory are extraordinary. It is […]
The results of our WHICH BOOK TO STORY GRID NEXT are in! THE MARTIAN received 782 votes TO KILL A MOCKINGBIRD received 731 votes and THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY received 239 votes. So tune in to The Story Grid Podcast on December 23, 2015 to check out The Story Grid for Andy Weir’s THE […]
How does one begin the editorial process? You’ve got a first draft of your Big Idea book of nonfiction and you’re not sure what to do next. You know that the manuscript is probably loaded with small and not so small problems, but you have no idea what or where they are. What to do? […]
Here’s the transcript for episode five, “Rocky is kind of a loser” of The Story Grid Podcast. You can also listen to it by clicking the play button below. Tim: Hello, and welcome to The Story Grid Podcast. This is the show dedicated to helping you become a better writer. In this show, we […]
We left off last week asserting that Malcolm Gladwell relied on the power of three to reason an explanation of how Tipping Points work. Remember the conundrum he faced? He needed to find a simple way for readers to understand how small linear cause and effect changes lead to a dramatic moment that exponentially and […]
Here’s the transcript for episode four, “What about Deliverance, right?” of The Story Grid Podcast. You can also listen to it by clicking the play button below. Tim: Hello, and welcome to Episode 4 of The Story Grid Podcast. I’m your host, Tim Grahl, and this podcast is dedicated to walking through all of the […]
A few years ago, a friend of mine sent me a desperate email. He had a big lump of manuscript filled with stuff that went here and there and over there and around the corner and through the trees and over the hill only to cross the finish line at Daytona. He had exactly three […]
Here’s the transcript for episode three, “Until the Woman From the Sea Arrives” of The Story Grid Podcast. You can also listen to it by clicking the play button below. Tim: Hello, and welcome to Episode 3 of The Story Grid Podcast. I’m your host, Tim Grahl, and Shawn Coyne will be joining me shortly. […]
