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'm a writer in the Storygrid universe. 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 30 years experience. In this episode, we continue our discussion about Masterworks, and we talk about

looking at Masterworks through this lens of StoryGrid, and we have a great listener question about

can you use StoryGrid to even upgrade Masterworks? So it's an interesting question. Sean has a

really good answer for it. So I think you'll

enjoy this episode. So let's jump in and get started. So Sean, this question this week is from

Brandon. And I picked this one because last week we talked about how to know, you know,

what defines a masterwork, how to select masterworks. And Brandon asked,

how can StoryGrid improve a masterwork? I could be wrong, but my guess would be that even

masterworks do not always hit every storytelling principle perfectly, whether it be a value

shift, spreadsheet component, Heroes Journey 2.0 event, or StoryGrid Trinity principle. I think it would

be tremendously helpful for writers to hear Sean examine how some

masterworks could even be made better by studying them from the standpoint of like,

what are they even missing?

Well, that really speaks very specifically to the current work that I'm doing.

Because the kind of like the thing that I've been reaching for, you know,

and it always eludes my grasp, is what I would call the objective evaluation of story

at a level that requires, it's almost Deridiyan, if that's a word,

that requires no subjective reading into. This all goes to this concept that is called the

Storygrid Trinity, which is about the fundamental foundational components of storytelling.

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