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Index
Title Page
Copyright Page
Dedication
Contents
Preface: For the Ramen Noodle Eaters
Introduction: Becoming Our Own Editors
Part 1: Who I Am and Why I Am Here
1. What I Do
2. What Is the Story Grid?
3. Where Did the Story Grid Come From?
4. The Autodidact’s Dilemma
5. Literary and Commercial
6. Where I Turned to Learn How to Edit
7. Works, Doesn’t Work
8. Your Own Worst Enemy
9. Knowing the Rules So You Can Break Them
10. The Realpolitik of Book Publishing
11. Flash Forward: The Story Grid in Action
Part 2: Genre
12. Genre Is Not a Four-Letter Word
13. Genres Have Conventions
14. Genres Have Obligatory Scenes
15. The Keys to Innovation
16. Genre’s Five-Leaf Clover
17. Choosing Your Genres
18. The Story Bell Curve
19. Arch-Plot
20. Mini-Plot
21. Anti-Plot
22. Conflict and Objects of Desire
23. Plot Driven or Character Driven?
24. External Content Genres
25. Internal Content Genres
26. The “A” Story and the “B” Story
Part 3: The Foolscap Global Story Grid
27. The Foolscap Method
28. An Editor’s Six Core Questions
29. The Universal Appeal of the Thriller
30. The Power of Negative Thinking
31. The Obligatory Scenes and Conventions of the Thriller
32. Point of View
33. Free Indirect Style
34. Controlling Idea/Theme
35. Beginning Hook, Middle Build and Ending Payoff
36. The Math
37. The Kubler-Ross Change Curve for Story and the Math
38. Flash Forward: The Foolscap Global Story Grid in Action
Part 4: Story Form
39. The Five Commandments of Storytelling
40. Commandment Number One
41. Commandment Number Two
42. The Little Buddy of Commandment Number Two
43. Commandment Number Three
44. The Best Bad Choice Crisis
45. The Irreconcilable Goods Crisis
46. Commandment Number Four
47. Commandment Number Five
Part 5: The Units of Story
48. The Beat
49. The Scene
50. The Sequence
51. The Act
52. The Subplot
53. The Global Story
Part 6: The Story Grid Spreadsheet
54. Where Editors Begin
55. Tracking the Global Story
56. Tracking the Scene
57. Tracking Continuity
58. The Story Grid Spreadsheet for The Silence of the Lambs
59. From Micro to Macro
Part 7: Building the Foolscap Global Story Grid
60. Back to Genre
61. Filling in the Foolscap
62. The Internal Content Genre of The Silence of the Lambs
63. The Obligatory Scenes and Conventions of The Silence of the Lambs
64. Point of View and Controlling Idea in The Silence of the Lambs
65. Finishing the Foolscap for The Silence of the Lambs
Part 8: The Story Grid
66. Putting It All Together
67. The Beginning Hook of The Silence of the Lambs
68. The Middle Build of The Silence of the Lambs
69. The Ending Payoff of The Silence of the Lambs
70. The Final Tweaks
Epilogue: A Tool, Not a Formula!
Acknowledgments
Back Cover
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