Hello and welcome to the Story Grid podcast. My name is Tim Graal. I'm going to be your host. And in this

very first episode, I just want to walk you through really quick before we jump in what you're

going to learn on this podcast. So the number one goal of this podcast is to make you a better writer,

to help you figure out how to tell a good story and become a successful

writer. I myself am an aspiring fiction writer. Just getting into it after several years of

playing around with it and writing here and there, I've decided I'm really going to go after

it. So I reached out to a friend of mine named Sean Coyne to talk to him about

how I can do this and how I can do it well. And I reached out to him because he is the author

of The Story Grid, this amazing book that walks you through how to tell great stories.

And so I reached out to him. We started talking and we came up with this idea of this podcast where basically I could play the role of you and me, the person trying to become a better writer, and just pepper him with all of my questions around how to tell great story, the different parts of a story, things from the story grid, books we love, why they work, all this kind of

stuff, all the things that I want to figure out as I'm becoming a writer. And so that's what

you get to do. You basically are going to listen in to conversations that we have where I just

pepper him with all kinds of questions and hear his answers so that I can become a better writer

and you can become a better writer

alongside me. So we're going to jump right into this first episode and I'm excited to get

started. So, Sean, I want to just start out this whole podcast adventure thing with you

with just asking you what it is that you do as an editor.

You know, I've always, you know, I hear like as a writer, you know, you hear about editors.

And then you hear like line editing and you hear like, you know, the ones that edit for grammar, the ones that editor for

like the edit for the whole story arc. So what is it that you do as an editor? Well, I'm going to

answer that question from the point of view of sort of a big five top publishing editor,

somebody at Random House or Harper Collins

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