Ranked #1
Thriller Genre - Hot Fuzz
Thriller Genre - Hot Fuzz
In this week’s episode, the team takes a look at the 2007 British comedy thriller Hot Fuzz, written by Edgar Wright and ... Read more
24 Jan 2018
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46mins
Ranked #2
Special Episode - Story Grid 101: The Editor's Six Core Questions
Special Episode - Story Grid 101: The Editor's Six Core Questions
It’s Story Grid 101: The Editor’s Six Core Questions. What do they mean? Why do you need them? How do they help you edit... Read more
6 Jun 2018
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59mins
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Ranked #3
Status Genre - Gladiator
Status Genre - Gladiator
In this week’s episode, we examine the 2000 Status/Admiration epic Gladiator, written by David Franzoni, John Logan, and... Read more
1 Feb 2018
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46mins
Ranked #4
Bite Size Episode - How to Analyze a Scene
Bite Size Episode - How to Analyze a Scene
It’s 20 minutes of deep insight this time as Valerie Francis and Leslie Watts bring you a bite-size episode on how to an... Read more
22 Jan 2020
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23mins
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Ranked #5
Courtship Love Story - The Bridges of Madison County
Courtship Love Story - The Bridges of Madison County
It’s love, loss and longing this week as the Roundtable team crosses The Bridges of Madison County, the 1995 film writte... Read more
8 Feb 2018
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58mins
Ranked #6
Psychological Thriller - Gone Girl
Psychological Thriller - Gone Girl
This week the Roundtable team disappears into Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl, and comes back with a verdict of Psychological ... Read more
13 Jun 2018
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42mins
Ranked #7
Bite Size Edition - Too Much Information
Bite Size Edition - Too Much Information
What is exposition, and why should novelists be leery of it? Turns out there's brain science behind “Show Don't Tell.” E... Read more
8 May 2019
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24mins
Ranked #8
Bite Size Edition - Shawn on Reading
Bite Size Edition - Shawn on Reading
“It’s a bitter pill to swallow, but you are not well-read enough.” It’s 20 minutes of professional inspiration for write... Read more
20 Mar 2019
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23mins
Ranked #9
Bite Size Episode - How to Plan A Novel
Bite Size Episode - How to Plan A Novel
It’s 20 minutes of deep insight this time as Jarie Bolander bring you a bite-size episode on how to plan a novel.Here on... Read more
11 Sep 2019
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14mins
Ranked #10
Love Story - Sense and Sensibility
Love Story - Sense and Sensibility
The Roundtablers return to the love story this week with Sense and Sensibility. This Oscar-winning 1995 adaptation of Ja... Read more
10 Jul 2019
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1hr 6mins
Ranked #11
Action - The Return of the King
Action - The Return of the King
Leslie concludes her epic examination of the action story on an epic scale with the epic-est epic of them all, The Lord ... Read more
4 Sep 2019
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55mins
Ranked #12
Bite Size Episode - Vetting Your Book Idea
Bite Size Episode - Vetting Your Book Idea
It’s 20 minutes of deep insight this time as Kim Kessler bring you a bite-size episode on Vetting Your Book Idea. Here o... Read more
15 May 2019
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19mins
Ranked #13
Worldview - Arrival
Worldview - Arrival
The Roundtable team touches down into the Worldview genre this week with the 2016 science fiction revelation drama Arriv... Read more
25 Jul 2018
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49mins
Ranked #14
Status - Puzzle
Status - Puzzle
This week, Kim and the other Roundtablers continue piecing together global internal genre stories with the 2018 independ... Read more
1 May 2019
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53mins
Ranked #15
Bite Size Edition - Beginning, Middle, and End
Bite Size Edition - Beginning, Middle, and End
It’s 20 minutes of deep insight as Valerie Francis brings you a bite-size episode on the Beginning, Middle and End of a ... Read more
13 Nov 2019
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10mins
Ranked #16
Bite Size Episode - Character Development
Bite Size Episode - Character Development
It’s 20 minutes of insight this time as Valerie Francis and Leslie Watts bring you a bite-size episode on character deve... Read more
26 Feb 2020
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22mins
Ranked #17
Psychological Thriller - Primal Fear
Psychological Thriller - Primal Fear
The multiple personalities around the Roundtable try to puzzle out whether the 1995 thriller Primal Fear works, and why—... Read more
3 Jul 2019
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1hr 5mins
Ranked #18
Crime - Double Indemnity
Crime - Double Indemnity
This week the Roundtable team investigates the claims of Double Indemnity, the 1944 film noir classic about murder and i... Read more
4 Apr 2018
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43mins
Ranked #19
Innovating the Love Story - Harold and Maude
Innovating the Love Story - Harold and Maude
Can Jarie make the case that pairing an 18-year-old boy with a 79-year-old woman is truly an innovation on the Love Stor... Read more
19 Sep 2018
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40mins
Ranked #20
Worldview-Education - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
Worldview-Education - The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
This week, Kim takes a close look at The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society, in order to study how a story’s ... Read more
25 Dec 2019
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