Hello and welcome to the Storygrid podcast. This is a show dedicated to helping you level up your craft as a writer.

My name is Tim Graal and I'm a writer and the behind the scenes guy here at Storygrid.

This podcast episode is hosted by Storygrid certified editor Kimberly Kessler, alongside Sean Coyne, the founder of StoryGrid and an editor with over 30 years of

experience. In this episode, Kim and Sean discuss crafting your stories with wants, needs, and

desires. Before we jump in, I want to mention two things you might be interested in. First of all,

I recommend you pick up a copy of the four core framework by Sean Coyne.

In this book, Sean introduces you to the four essential elements of a story.

Core needs, core life values, core emotions, and core events.

Whether you're writing an action adventure, a mystery, or a love story, these are the elements

that spark the emotional

connection and catharsis readers are looking for. You can get 20% off the four-core framework

in all of our books as storygrid.com slash books with the coupon code podcast. Lastly, if you

are fascinated by the story grid and are interested in joining the elite team of Storygrid certified editors, our next training is coming up in less than two months. It's in February.

One of the many benefits of this program is world-class training on starting and growing and editing business.

You can see all of the details at storygrid.com slash certification.

Okay, that's all on the announcements.

So let me turn it over to Kim and Sean.

Okay, Sean.

So we're back and we're talking about wants and needs and desires, this trinity of these objects of desire that are protagonists and other characters in our story

that they are pursuing. So I wanted to bring this up and I wanted to pick your brain about this

because it's something that I have been really thinking about lately and I've been really

noticing how the character wants and needs are really, to me, it's like

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