Episode 15: Beastly Act 2 Tools for Staying in Love with Your Story

Welcome back to another episode of Storybeast, where Courtney Shack and Ghabiba Weston discuss the transformative power of story. This episode is all about powering through Act 2!

You'll hear about:

• Ghabiba's "mirror moment" alliteration appreciation.

• Leigh Bardugo's wisdom on the relationship you have with your story.

• The allure of shiny story trinkets.

• Courtney's garlic stew metaphor.

• A reference to Brandon Sanderson's 3 P's: Promise, Progress, and Payoff.

• What it means to move story forward and tools that will help you on your way.

• Story layering to show progress and character arcs.

• Slappy endings.

• The new term Courtney will be adding to her mantra book.

• Ghabiba's dark salad.

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A warm thank you to Deore for our musical number. You can find her on Instagram or more of her creative work on Spotify.

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Be brave, stay beastly.