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 am a struggling writer trying to figure out how to tell a story that works.

Joining me shortly as Sean Coyne, he is a creator of Story Grid, the author of the book Story Grid, and an editor with over 25 years experience.

In this episode, we dive back into The Threshing. We left that off about a month, six weeks ago, as we jumped into launching, running down a dream.

But now I was able to actually get back in and keep writing and send Sean some words that I'd written in the Threshing.

So we start there and then Sean talks a lot about some of these global story ideas he's

been working on and it's really cool.

I think you really like it.

So let's jump in and get started.

So Sean, now that running down a dream is out and it's running, and we talked about that last week,

and I have had like tons of personal projects between moving and traveling and my real job.

That is not StoryGrid or Black Irish or promoting a book, you know, where I'm finally able to,

like, sit back down and focus on the threshing because now I feel like that's the next thing

I want to finish. And so I went back and went through the last scene I had sent you and then wrote the next scene and sent that

to you. I'm going to figure that's just, you know, we left off it right at the middle point of the

middle build. And so now it's kind of, you know, a race to the end of the middle build, which has been

good because in the level up your craft course, you're going over the climax, the crisis climax, the resolution,

so, which is what of the middle build, which is what I need. So anyway, sent that to you. Let's just

start with your feedback on that scene. Well, I think the scene is, is fine. I think you're taking

the right course of action, which is to really

start escalating the active moments, I mean the external action to a degree where it becomes more

of a chase, you know, sort of a lot of movement and action from the midpoint through the end of the story. So it's less discovery,

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