Hello and welcome to the Story Grid podcast.

My name is Tim Graal.

I'm your host and I am a struggling writer trying to figure out how to tell a story that

works.

Joining me soon is Sean Coyne.

He has 25 plus years in the publishing and editing world.

He is the author of the Story Grid and it's a fantastic book to help you write a story that works from start to finish.

In this episode, we dive into The Heroes Journey.

I've become fascinated with this over the last few weeks.

So I ask a lot of questions about how the hero's journey works alongside of Story Grid and get Sean to explain to me how the mentor role works,

how do we figure out what characters to have in our book and what roles they have to play

and who can play them. Along with that, the last half of the episode, I dive into something that

I was actually pretty nervous to bring up with Sean and ask him. And, well, you know what? I'm just

going to let you follow along with me as I talk to him about it. So let's jump in and get

started. I hope you enjoy this episode. So, Sean, I've been thinking a lot and reading a lot

about the hero's journey. The thing from the hero with a thousand

faces by Joseph Campbell. And I think, I'm sure we've talked about it before. But I'm wondering

your take on it, because it's kind of resurged in my mind because the new Star Wars is out

and all my like story nerd friends are like oh man it's just

straight hero's journey right and then i had a long drive last week for like 10 hours and so

my wife and i listened to the entire first harry potter book again and as i was listening to it

after reading about the hero's journey i I'm like, oh, this is just

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