How I Wrote My Masterpiece: A Book That Will Change Your Life
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My name is Tim Grahl, I'm the CEO of Story Grid and I'm the author _The Shithead_, _Running Down a Dream_, and _Your First 1000 Copies_. My partner Shawn Coyne is the creator and founder of Story Grid and he's a writer and editor with over 30 years of experience.
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Tim...
First, congratulations!
Your willingness to share your vulnerability, transparency, and authenticity is more than admirable; it is courageous! Thank you.
Finally, I am honored to be a part of your ARC team; you can count on me to leave a review!
I’m looking forward to reading your book. Again, congratulations!
There are a lot of shysters providing online advice but you are definitely not one of them. I've benefitted tremendously from your channel. Thank you. I've downloaded your book and I'll read it this month. I'm really looking forward to it and I will leave a review for you. Cheers and thanks again.
Tim, this book was POWERFUL. Thank you for writing it.
Congrats Tim! Happy for you and Shawn!
Congrats! Ive never published although Ive written and currently writing another manuscript Im trying to be patient with and think of it as a long term project.
Congratulations Tim, You are so fortunate to have a mentor and great editor to produce an excellent novel. Can't wait to read your novel
Not sure if I’m allowed to do this but OMG! I’m on chapter 20 & thinking of calling out of work so I can keep reading
Reading is better than watching endless screens!
Tim, thank you for the advanced copy. I look forward to reading it and giving you a review. I get a lot of great tips from your channel, so I am very happy to give back to you.
Looking forward to reading this!
What a great story how the book even came about. I appreciate you putting yourself out there to tell your followers how you got here!
Thank you for your honesty.
Have been looking forward to reading your book. Can’t wait!
Looking forward to this. I will actually read your book, and review it. Thanks for the years of knowledge you've delivered here and on the podcast.
Hey. I'm the guy everyone hates on here. I am pre-ordering this book
I think it will be excellent. I hope one day I can write one too, only my opinion of myself is pretty much nil. Loving to write is definitely a curse if you can't do it.
I’m reading my advanced copy, Tim, and so enjoying it-both the story itself as well as the novel being a “proof of concept” of the Story Grid writing principles you’re teaching us. Bravo. Well done.
I’m still savoring the read. I’ve been reading each chapter, highlighting the Story Grid commandments. I’ve also made a playlist of the chapter heading songs on my Spotify-what fun. We have similar taste in music.
Cheers. And congratulations on your upcoming book launch.
Re: the Spotify playlist I mentioned… I made it for myself, but maybe you’re planning on creating your own playlist. Either way, I have some questions on which/who’s version of a song you had in mind when writing each chapter. For some songs there was a clear guess that seemed right. For others a few candidates to choose from. But there’s a song, named Carousel, that I have no clear idea who’s version you mean… so I picked the one that spoke to me. Are you going to create your own Spotify playlist as part of your launch?
Well, I finished reading it in a day and a half, which I've done only about three times before in my life and only with genre fiction. An impressive page-turner. I look forward to leaving a review on the publication date. Thank you so much for sharing your book and the journey of its creation.
Hi Tim, just finished The Shithead and I have to say that I have never read any book like your. It was fantastic and I will be leaving a review on the 19th of next month. Well done
Thanks for the book, nome it's my turn to read and review.
Congratulations, I've been excited to read your book since it was announced!
I started to read it. Thank you, Tim for your generosity. The book is brilliant.
Sure, I'll be your ARC reader. I'm studying the Story Grid right now and would love to see it in action!
Appreciate it, Tim. Well done, congrats to you, and congrats to the company. I'm really interested in reading a finely honed Story Grid narrative. Of course I will leave a review, not only in gratitude of the book, but also for the valuable information you are putting out freely on TH-cam. Big fan here giving big thanks.
Thank you for sharing, make us all things, writers or not; readers or not! Because the work of love touches all of us.
This is a damn fine book. You should read it. You...order it.
Congratulations! Major feat accomplished!
Aside from an excellent tutor, you're a master speaker. Have you taken public speaking classes?
Thanks for sharing. Therapy has changed my life as well, so I can totally relate. I had to laugh when you mentioned how Shaun(sp) always ripped your work apart. As a debut author, I'd kill for someone to rip my work apart. I can't seem to get anyone to give me honest feedback, so that I know where to improve. I've resolved that I'll save up my pennies, and invest in an editor for my next novel. I don't know how authors can afford editors, they're so expensive, but the feedback would be invaluable.
I haven't read your book, but from the description you gave, "Reading it will change your life for the better," I wonder if "Self Help" should be the category?
Hey Bruce, if you're looking to get real, direct feedback on your writing, I recommend you checkout our workshop: storygrid.com/workshop
Thanks!
Tim
Reading it! Congrats!
Very courageous of you to be so forthcoming and vulnerable here with your story. It sounds like every page manifested in your book was hard earned.
I’ll admit I’m surprised your book transcends or defies a global genre classification given the “tenets” of Story Grid…but if Mr. Coyne signed off on it, then what else is there to say except - maybe he’ll create another genre in your honor! 🤔😃.
Hoping much success for you and this book which sounds like it was a real labor of the soul.
This is a long way from the prior trials of your iterations of Eyewitness. I guess it was all worth it! 🎉🎉
So this may not have been clear. In Story Grid terms, I wrote a Performance External, Worldview Internal story. However, the SG writing genres are completely different to the random 100s of "marketing" genres. Those are the ones I was having trouble putting my book into. - Tim
@@StoryGrid Ahhh - yes. Makes perfect sense! Totally understand marketing genres do not 100% align with Story Grid. You were clear enough, I just didn’t connect that marketing dot to what you said about the genre of your story.
Thank you for the clarification because it was like “a splinter in my mind”. 😂. Best to you!
I am really happy for you 💐
Your story about falling apart psychologically at 4:30 was intriguing. What caused it?
At 4:20 you mention EMDR therapy. Is that "Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing" ?
Yes, that's the one! - Tim
Congratulations!!!
Congrats!
omg so excited and so happy for you! sign me up! i'd love to leave a review!!!
Thanks Tim. Got a copy and will read and review.
Two questions if you don't mind:
Does the Story Grid book do an indepth study of building scenes, and scene to scene transitions?
And, are you writing another book?
Thanks. Appreciate your honesty. I had similar experience growing up - reading SF or fantasy was frowned upon by my father who was suspicious of anything that was not labeled religious. Decades later now and realise noone can quench what rises up from our true and unique self.
Not sure about the title though.
I’m looking for the physical book and both links take me to the ebook download…help
When signup for the ebook I'll also send you the link to how to get the physical book. - Tim
@@StoryGridthanks Tim! Excited for you
I'm not (normally) a prude at all, but I wouldn't use that title. I would choose a title that suggests that someone would probably ENJOY the novel, rather than run from it. I've occasionally (very occasionally) used the "s" word in my own fiction, but I wouldn't put it in a title like that.... unless it is a NON fiction book with a title like, "Clean your place quickly... No more SH*T MESSES!"
_The Subtle Art of Not Giving a Fuck_ sold roughly a bajillion copies so I'm not too concerned about it turning off readers. I'm way more concerned with having a title that is so generic that no one could remember it.
- Tim
not only that but the word shithead shows up in every other page in a cheeky reference kind of way that i despised hahaha
@@StoryGridthe title is perfect. It's the loudest voice that torments him the whole journey. This isn't a story about Eric. It's about The Shithead, and how he becomes Eric.
Oops you've reached the 404 page?
Same here.
Fixed now
@@StoryGrid Thank you, I finally found it under the spam folder
Both links to dropbox (download your copy directly) in the email doesn't work, dropbox said this item was deleted. But I downloaded from the site
Thanks for the heads up! This will be fixed in future emails, but I’m glad you were able to get your copy. - Tim