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 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,

we get to actually dive into the things that I've written over the last week or so. So if you've

been listening along, you know that I've been really blocked on the book and I've finally made some

progress and had some actual scenes and words to send

Sean to look at. So we get to talk through those and talk through kind of some of the decisions

I've made and where I'm going next. So it was at least a fun episode for me, but hopefully you'll

get something out of it as well. So let's jump in and get started.

So Sean, I finally was able to break through my block because we talked through it a couple

weeks ago. I did the outline and then I started writing again. And it was nice because

where I started was a few scenes or a couple scenes that you had

already liked on the first draft so I just had to add some things that you had suggested and we

talked about well like a year ago now and then I just kept going basically as fast as I could. Like anytime I got stuck, I would just be like,

just make a decision and write it down. And so I sent you, I think about 7,000 words. And I sent you,

like the end of the middle build into the beginning of the ending payoff into kind of the final battle.

And I'm realizing as I go, because you said something a few weeks ago where like I just have a lot of work to do on the world itself and like making it much more

clear what it is. And so I've just kind of embraced that it's going to be vague and I'm just

trying to get the story moments happening the right way in the right order. And then later, once I, you know, ground the world and

I'm using air quotes here, reality much more, then I'll be able to go back through and kind of

make some decisions about what it looks like and what's happening around them. But I'm just trying to get

the story set now. So sent that to you. What are your thoughts? I think it's absolutely on the mark.

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