Are you ready to raise the stakes? On this week’s episode, Zach and J. discuss how crisis makes or breaks a story and more:
- Some clarifications about last week’s podcast
- The importance of finding your own ideal writing process
- The difference between pantsing and first draft publishing, and how the Story Grid can help pantsers
- New advertising options for paperback authors on Amazon
- Research shows that books written by women and released by mainstream publishers are sold for roughly half the price of traditionally published books by men; this gap is a much lower 7% when the books are priced by the authors themselves
- Netflix doubles down on scifi programming
- How Netflix’s user experience is ideal for the genre viewer
- What an act-level crisis is in the Story Grid methodology and how a crisis can make or break a story
- The five commandments of Story Grid methodology
- Why your characters need to be making active decisions throughout the story
- How story structure has developed through the ages, and what aspects of storytelling remain the same regardless of your chosen methodology
- How to make your story better during revisions
- The difference between a sequence of events and a story, and how the reader experiences this difference
The Career Author Podcast is a podcast where co-authors J. Thorn and Zach Bohannon share their struggles and successes as full-time authors, advice for improving your writing craft, and honest discussions of what it takes to build a successful career as an author.
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News Links:
Paperback Writer
https://kdp.amazon.com/en_US/help/topic/G201499010
45% More Value
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/may/01/books-by-women-priced-45-lower-study-finds
Sci-Fi And Chill?
https://lrmonline.com/news/netflix-to-focus-on-more-original-sci-fi-and-fantasy-content/
Other Links:
The Story Grid by Shawn Coyne – http://books2read.com/u/49PEvW
Authors on a Train – http://www.authorsonatrain.com Sell More Books Show Summit – http://www.sellmorebooksshow.com/summit