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 the creator of Story Grid, the author of the book story grid,

and an editor with over 25 years experience.

In this episode, we are solidly in the middle build. I sent Sean three more scenes for us to go

through, and this is all about, and I named the episode, correctly, progressively complicating

your scenes, which is quite the mouthful,

but it's really what this episode is about because when you're in the middle of the middle

build, you have to keep the story moving without going too fast and skipping over things

or, you know, upping the stakes too much, which is what I tend to do. But you also don't want to go

so slow that it's boring and people stop reading. So that's what we discuss a lot in this episode

as we get deep into the middle build of my story. But we all hit that middle build and

trying to figure out how to keep the story moving at the right

pace is really important and so I think you'll enjoy this episode so let's jump in and get

started so Sean I took a couple weeks off went on vacation and came back and started working on

this the next series of scenes.

It's been so funny because I always, these last couple sequences, I don't know what to do with them.

And so I just put off the writing because I can't think of anything.

And it's amazing how it reaches Monday morning and I need to write something and inspiration hits.

But anyway, so I sent you the next three scenes.

So this was where after the first test and then Jesse kind of hijacks the test and burns the tower down so that nobody can actually finish the test.

This is like the fallout from that.

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