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

writer. My name is Tim Graal. I'm your host and I am the writer just trying to get into storytelling

and learning how to do it. So I am asking all of the inane little questions that writers like us

want to ask experts like Sean Coyne.

Sean Coyne has been in the industry over 25 years. He wrote the book, The Story Grid,

and he is an expert in making sure your story works, and your story is something people will want to read.

So that's what this podcast is all about, and this is

episode seven. In this episode, we talk about macro and micro stories. We talk about the six

questions every editor is trying to answer, and then we walk through the five different parts of a

story and what each of them mean and what they mean for your story as well.

And just to let you know, we did a survey last week to the email subscribers at storygrid.com

and we asked what story you would like us to run through the story grid.

And you voted and the answer was The Martian.

So Sean and I are working on that right now, and we're going to make that available in a few episodes. In fact, that's going to be our Christmas episode that comes out on December 23rd. So you're going to want to look out for that because along with that, we're going to run the classic story, the Christmas carol through the story grid as well. So look out for that because along with that we're going to run the classic story the Christmas carol

through the story grid as well so look out for that last thing before we jump into this week's

episode i just want to remind you that one of the best ways that you can support the show is to go

to iTunes and drop in a rating or a review for our show right now as i I record this, we are at 29, and I would love to get that to 50.

So I know there are thousands of you listening to this podcast,

and so far we've had 29 ratings and reviews.

So if just a couple of you jump in and do this,

we will hit that goal of 50 reviews on iTunes.

So go into iTunes and do that

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