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'm 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 Story Grid, the author of the book Story Grid, and an editor with over 25 years experience. In this episode,

we continue looking at the kind of basic tools and ideas of story grid through this new

lens of fears that Sean has come up with and we've been talking about for a few weeks now.

And so this week we dive into

the Five Commandments and how those work with this new idea and from this new perspective. So

it's a really great episode. I think you'll enjoy it. So let's jump in and get started.

So Sean, I think it's been interesting because we've been going back through some of the fundamental story grid ideas and tools.

And it's been neat because we've been kind of going through them with this new kind of perspective around fears, the P-H-E-R-E. And so I remember when, you know,

when you kind of had this realization at the editor training, it was in this discussion of the

five commandments and really around the turning point and identifying the turning point that sparked this.

And so the thing I was planning on talking about this week was kind of going through the

five commandments again of storytelling and talking about that. And I just wonder like, I almost

feel like this fear thing. Maybe it's because it's like the new thing so

it's front of mind but it's almost coloring how you talk about everything and so anyway I wanted

to go through the commandments but I was wondering like how you view it now from this fear perspective of the five different commandments of

every part of your story has to have an inciting incident a middle build crisis what is it

crisis climax and it's progressive complications progressive complications

crisis climax resolution yes that's That's right, right.

Well, that, I mean, yeah, the fact that we all sort of stumble on what those five things are,

I think is testimony to the necessity of having a story grid golden rule, you know?

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