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The Story Grid: What Good Editors Know by Shawn Coyne is a craft and editing book focused on narrative structure, especially for fiction but also useful for other narrative forms. Coyne draws on decades of editorial and publishing experience to present a diagnostic method for evaluating whether a story works and where it breaks down. Rather than offering a loose set of writing tips, the book frames storytelling as a system of expectations, value changes, and genre conventions that can be analyzed scene by scene. Its purpose is practical: to help writers and editors identify structural weaknesses before a manuscript reaches publication. The book is best known for introducing tools such as the Genre Clover, the Foolscap Global Story Grid, the Story Grid Spreadsheet, and the Graph Grid, all of which help writers organize, test, and revise a story at both the macro and micro levels.