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 is Sean Coyne. He is a creator of Storygrid, the author of the book Story Grid and

an editor with over 25 years experience.

This episode is kind of a two-fer.

So for the first half of the episode, we talk a little bit about my nonfiction writing and some decisions I have to make there.

I'm working on a second edition of a book, but then that kind of got blown up.

And so I was asking Sean advice

about kind of the next steps with some of my how-to writing. And so he gave me some really good

things to think about. And for those of you thinking about writing series or about second edition

of books or how you're structuring, you know, thinking about the order

of books you're going to write and so on. I think it would be really helpful. And then we get

into in the second half of the episode, we get back into my novel and I've done a lot of work on

the beginning hook, kind of cleaning it up, getting it ready. And so we walked through some of Sean's

feedback on that, his advice and what I need to keep doing. And so it was really good. And so again,

this is kind of a two-for episode. Hope you enjoy it. Let's jump in and get started. So Sean,

I finished, you know, we've spent the last couple months going through my manuscript,

looking at it from all the spreadsheet and the hero's journey and all that kind of stuff.

And then last week we talked about me going through the beginning hook to start weaving it together and trying to

get it to a point where, you know, we can say the manuscript is now ready to go through the

editing, the other editing process or whatever. So I sent you that, but before we get into that,

I have a completely unrelated question for you about my other books.

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