Hello and welcome to the Storygrid podcast. This is a show dedicated to helping you become a better writer.

I'm your host Tim Grawl 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 the creator of Story Grid, the author of the book story grid,

and an editor with over 25 years experience.

In this episode, we continue talking about creating the story grid, the actual graph that

you've seen on the book and in other places with all of the story grid stuff, and how to create

that.

And I actually went through the scenes and tried to do the homework from last week.

Got a little frustrated and also got a little lost on why I'm doing this. And so we talked through

that, helped me kind of figure out and get back on track. And then we also talk about next steps,

because as we've been walking through the last

couple months from the first draft to the second draft. And so we're getting really close to me

actually getting to work on a second draft. So anyway, I will stop talking here and we will just

dive in and get started. So Sean, I tried to go through this scene. So where we're at in this process is working,

you know, I wrote a first draft that's, you know, working. And now we're doing everything we need

to do to get to the point where we can, I can write a second draft.

And so basically we've been doing these different things over the last, you know,

a couple months now to look at it from different angles.

So we've gone scene by scene.

We've, you know, kind of drawn back and looked at it as a whole with the full scab.

We've looked at it through the lens of the hero's journey. And now we're looking at it on a

scene by scene value shift. And so, you know, what we talked about doing since there's roughly

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