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'm 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 Story Grid, the author of the

book Story Grid and an editor with over 25 years experience. In this episode, I had

something really cool happen as I was continuing to write the middle build of my story. If you've

been listening along with us, you know that this thorn in my side is like trying to figure out

the world that I'm basing my book in, which will then help me figure

out everybody's motivations.

And I finally had some breakthrough in that.

And so I get to talk about that.

It was really cool for me.

And I think a lot of you hopefully will like see yourself in that of like you'll eventually

get to where you need to be.

And then we go into talking about this new show

on Netflix called Altered Carbon. And I'm saying this up front because usually in some ways you

could say this entire show is based on spoilers, right? So writing my book, like you get the entire

book as I write it. And when we talk about movies and that kind of thing.

But this is a brand new show that's very popular.

So towards about two-thirds of the way into this episode, I start doing spoilers on altered

carbon.

So either watch that.

If you're going to watch it, watch it before you listen to the second half of this episode.

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