Hello and welcome to the Storygrid 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 as Sean Coyne, he is the creator of Storygrid, the author of the

book Story Grid and an editor with over 25 years experience. So last week,

we looked at the four different types of genres inside of nonfiction. And in this episode, we

really hone in on the big idea nonfiction work. We look at what it is, what it isn't,

how it incorporates all the different parts of nonfiction,

all the different genres of nonfiction, and really look at the different types of big idea

nonfiction and how you can write one that fits who you are in your writing style. So it's a really

great episode. I think you'll enjoy it. so let's jump in with sean so sean last week

we talked about nonfiction and we talked about the four different types of nonfiction

but the one that we really landed on that you didn't really get to go into was the big idea

and that kind of seems to be

the big one. I don't know if that's the right word for it, but like that's the one that we're

really wanting to focus on here. Yeah. The big idea book is it's just such a remarkable kind of

phenomena. And it's the thing in nonfiction that really

gets people when it's done extraordinarily well, it gets them very excited because it allows

them to sort of project into the future and sort of make predictions about phenomena that

was always kind of curious to them and they're really

what weren't sure exactly what was behind how certain things you know happen in

the world so you know you can go back to big idea books all the way back to you know like Isaac Newton's physics

he really basically that was a big idea book it was sort of getting to the fundamental science

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