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 as Sean Coyne, he is the creator of StoryGrid, the author of the book StoryGrid,

and an editor with over 25 years experience.

In this episode, I have finally finished the Story Grid spreadsheet and the Foolscap for the

second draft of my novel. And so Sean and I go over that, talk about some specifics,

and then it gives me some homework that is a tool, a story

grid tool that we've never talked about before on the podcast. And so I'm excited for you to hear

it and for you to dive into this with me. So let's jump in and get started. So Sean,

I sent you the spreadsheet yesterday.

I finished it up.

I went through the...

So I went scene by scene through the entire second draft of the threshing.

And I filled out the first...

I think it's...

I forgot how many columns, like 10 columns or something that we went over on the last

episode. And so, so yeah, I went through each scene, filled them all out, and tried to, you know,

again, the value shift, the, what it shifted on was the hardest for each one. But yeah, so I did that.

And I feel like overall, my kind of feeling is that overall the story is working and there's

a lot of peripheral stuff that needs fixed.

But overall, I'm still pretty happy with how the story is working overall.

But, yeah, so I did the spreadsheet and sent it to you. I'm still pretty happy with how the story is working overall.

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