Hello and welcome to the Story Grid 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 as Sean Coyne, he is the creator of Story Grid, the author of

the book Story Grid and an editor with over 25 years experience.

In this episode, I started out asking some specific questions about issues I'm having with

my continued rewrite of the threshing. But then we get into the movie The Green Book,

which is a movie I recently watched and really enjoyed. And we talked about some specific

moments in that and analyzed that, but also just talked about a little bit of race and looking

at these stories in a bigger cultural context. So I think it's a good thing for us to talk about

and be aware of and start touching on. So it's a great episode. I think

you'll really enjoy it. Let's jump in and get started. So Sean, I got back on the horse this week

and started working through my scenes again. And I didn't take 45 minutes every day, but I did take

three days out of the last week and work on it,

and I'm trying to get back into it. And I discovered as I was working through it that I think

there's two things that I think are making this harder for me. I just wanted to run through with you. So the first is

I'm constantly worried that I'm not weaving it together the right way. I feel like, you know,

within the last couple years, I got to a point where I could consistently write 1,500 words at work.

But now that I'm trying to have, you know, 60,000 words

that all work together, I'm constantly, what's making me go slow is I keep going back to all the

different parts of the book and rechecking to see if I'm writing this the right way to work with

those. And I don't know if that's the right way or the wrong way to go about this.

Because almost everything else we've done, you're like, don't worry about any of that.

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