Hello and welcome to the Storygrid podcast. This is a show dedicated to helping you become a better writer.

I'm your host Tim Graal and I am a struggling writer trying to figure out how to tell a story that works.

Joining me shortly is Sean Coyne. He is the creator of StoryGrid, the author of the book StoryGrid,

and an editor with over 25 years experience. In this episode,

Sean and I continue to kind of help me get back into my novel and figure out how to get

started rewriting this. I'm hitting an interesting roadblock where I just feel like

finishing up my nonfiction work, running down a dream, just kind of change the way

I look at writing and I approach writing. And so I'm having trouble figuring out how to get

started again on the novel. So Sean gives me some homework that I think is a good place for

each of us to start when we're trying to figure out either our novel

for the first time or to step back into it again. So I think you'll enjoy this episode. So let's

jump in and get started. So, Sean, you know, we talked last week about kind of the initial things

as I start stepping back into my novel and trying to finish it. And,

you know, I've been thinking a lot about it this week of just how I really want to get this

finished. You know, I think it was really helpful. Well, when you, you know, a couple months ago

are like, we're going to publish this book in June when we were talking about running down a dream. And I was like, oh, I should probably finish the book, you know. And so I really would like to, my goal is to publish that, publish the threshing this year. Right. And even if we don't hit that, that's kind of what I'm shooting for.

I would like, I think we can do it.

So I feel like something changed in me when I kind of broke down on the podcast a couple

months ago and then was able to finish the book, running down a dream.

And as I've started to like send it out to get blurbs and that kind of thing,

you know, the feedback's been good. And I'm just realizing I think I'm a different writer now.

And even saying that sounds, I feel like both pretentious and cliche.

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