Analysing the Masterwork
Best place to start is with The Story Grid Editor’s Six Core Questions.
- What’s the genre?
- What are the conventions and obligatory scenes for that genre?
- What’s the Point of View?
- What are the objects of desire?
- What’s the controlling idea/theme?
- What is the Beginning Hook, the Middle Build, and Ending Payoff?
After you’ve practiced applying this level of analysis to a range of stories, you may find that you want to delve into creating a spreadsheet of a masterwork. That’s a good exercise to understand how the micro components add up to a macro story.
You might also work on your micro storytelling by analyzing and recreating scenes.
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