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 am 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.

So there's two things I want to say here at the beginning. So the first off is just,

this is a great episode. So we go over the first few scenes in my ending payoff and we use that

as an opportunity to talk about what an ending payoff is, what you have to do at the beginning

of an ending payoff to really make it work. If you remember back at the middle build,

I kept writing all these scenes at the beginning of my middle build that worked as individual

scenes, but didn't work as the beginning of a middle build. So I think this is a really important episode that gets you into the ending payoff,

helps you understand how to start your own ending payoff.

So the second thing I want to mention, it's this thing that's been rolling around in my head.

And so I wanted to work on it a little bit here, kind of work it out as I talk about it.

And it really came into focus as during this episode with Sean, this was happening in my head. I didn't actually talk about it.

But I realized that one of the threads through this story is understanding that just, you know, your family doesn't have to be the people that

you're related to with blood.

In fact, a lot of times those are the people that let you down the most, but yet we

constantly hang on to them hoping that there'll be the people we need them to be.

While so many times the people around us are our true family, you know, they're not related

to us by blood, but they are our true family.

They're the ones that are supporting us in a day-to-day basis and will be there when the

chips are really down.

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