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 Grawl 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 StoryGrid, the author of

the book Story Grid and an editor with over 25 years experience.

So this is the episode that I've been waiting for, which is where I get to tell Sean that

the draft is done. And this isn't, of course, the final draft. We still have to get feedback

from Sean, and I've got to send it to him because I literally finished

it right before we recorded this and we have copy editing and lots of work.

But I feel like for the first time I finished the draft that will be the book.

Again, lots of changes.

So I was excited to tell that to Sean to talk about it and to just get his feedback on what's next now that this

draft is done what's the next few months going to look like so I'm excited about that hopefully

you are too and I think it'll be helpful as you listen in on what he says is going to be coming

in the next few weeks and months so let's jump in and get So, Sean, we always record this a week before it comes out. So it's the 4th of April.

You told me I had to have my draft done by the 20th of April, but I finished it this morning.

Wow.

Literally like 10 minutes before we got on the call, I was like writing the last paragraph.

So it's done.

I haven't sent it to you, well, because I just finished it, but I just have a bunch of

questions now of like what to do now.

So the first one is I came in at just under 32,000 words and now I'm worried that it's not long enough.

So that's my first question is like, do I need to add to it or is like 32,000 words still

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