Hello and welcome to the Storygrid podcast. My name is Tim Graal. I'm the host and I am a struggling

writer trying to figure out how to tell a story that works. Joining me shortly is the creator and

founder of Storygrid Sean Coyne, an editor with over 30 years of experience. Along with him is Leslie

Watts, the editor-in-chief of Storygrid Publishing,

and Danielle Kiyoski, the chief academic officer of Storygrid University. In this episode, we keep

looking at the short story that I wrote based on eyewitness by Ed McBain, and now we start

going through the 624 analysis and looking at how my

short story diverged from eyewitness. Now, of course, it has to diverge some, right? Because I'm

writing my own version of the story. I'm not just plagiarizing Ed McBain. But at the same time,

we don't want it to diverge to the point that I'm not using it as a masterwork guide.

So it's a kind of a needle.

I've got a thread here.

And so we start walking through how I went different, how I made it the same, and some places that I need to make some fixes to get it right.

So it's a really great episode. And as you're learning to give analysis of your own masterworks and then write your

own stories based on masterworks, you're going to see how these 624 analysis really help. And it

really helped me with the writing and the evaluating of it as well.

Now, before we jump into that, I want to mention two things. So first off, if you've liked this

whole 624 analysis, especially the narrative path part, right, where we talked about point of

view, narrative device and the pop. We are running a narrative

path workshop this coming November in Nashville, Tennessee. So we have a few spots left. We're

really keeping it tight and constrained, but because we want to give everybody some, you know,

real feedback, one-on-one feedback. And it's being led by Leslie Watts.

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