Hello and welcome to the Storygrid podcast. My name is Tim Graal and I am a struggling writer trying to figure out how to tell a story that works.

Joining me shortly is Sean Coyne. He's the creator and founder of StoryGrid and he's an editor with over 30 years of experience.

Also joining me is Danielle Kiyoski. She's the chief academic officer of StoryGrid

Universe and Leslie Watts, the editor-in-chief of Story Grid Publishing. In this episode, we continue

going through beats, but we kind of skip ahead, show you what it looks like if you go through

all the beats in Ed McBain's eyewitness and then we

show you the graphs that come out of doing all of this beat analysis and talk about why this

is so important and how it can help you as a writer. So it's a really good episode. It's a really

great way to cap off this three-part episode going beat by beat through eyewitness.

And so let's go ahead and jump in and get started.

Great. Thanks, Tim. So what we've been doing over the last couple of weeks is really turning a fine eye toward beats.

And the reason why we're doing that is we want to be

able to really be able to identify the words on the page that are generating energy to keep our,

to hold our interest as readers. So we have a name for that person that we generically call Sam,

and that's a single audience member. So we want to be able to evaluate how much energy is being

transmitted to Sam as she's reading the story. So the beats is the place to learn what specific

amount of energy is being transmitted.

And the way we do that is through the analysis of beatwork, which we've been doing over the last

couple of weeks.

So we've only been able to really explore the concept of enlivening or depleting for a particular

beat.

So, Danielle, if you don't mind,

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