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 step into the next tool in evaluating your first draft. So we've gone through three so far,

and this is the fourth one. And if it sounds like kind of a long slog, that's exactly what it

feels like on my end anyway. But what I'm

hoping and what, you know, Sean says, and I think is true, is this is going to make the shift from

the first draft to the second draft, just make the book so, so much better looking at the story

from all these different angles. So this is the fourth tool. It's

definitely one that's probably the hardest on me to wrap my head around, but I think it's a really

great one, and I'm excited to jump in and get started. So Sean, we're continuing to work through

the first draft of my novel.

And this has just continued to be fascinating to me

because everything that you see out there

is all about writing your first draft

and how to write your first draft.

But I've never really seen a methodical way

to move from first draft to second draft.

And this thing we've been going over for the last six or eight weeks is nothing if it's not methodical.

So we've gone through going scene by scene through the story grid spreadsheet and then doing a big to-do list and brainstorm.

Then we did the full SCap global story grid where we put

...