How do you boil your story down into one "What If" statement? There are four parts to building out the answer to this question and Shawn, Leslie, Danielle, and Tim walk through it together in this week's episode.

The genre of your story is way more than one thing. In this episode of the Story Grid Podcast, learn the five important pieces of understanding your genre — Time, Style, Structure, Reality, and Content.

Shawn discusses the two sides to every story.

Shawn and Kim go back to the beginning and discuss the origins of Story Grid.

Shawn Coyne walks through the role you, as the Artist, plays in getting your own wants, needs and desires into your story.

Shawn Coyne discusses the role backstory plays in your avatar's wants, needs, and desires.

Shawn Coyne walks through character wants, needs, and desires and how they impact your storytelling.

Shawn and Kim discuss Objects of Desire and how they work with your characters and storytelling.

Continuing the discussion on the three different types of Beats that build up to Scenes, how do Expository Beats work inside a scene?

Continuing the discussion on the three different types of Beats that build up to Scenes, how do Passive Beats work inside a scene?