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 as Sean Coyne, he is a creator of StoryGrid, the author of

the book Story Grid and an editor with over 25 years experience.

In this episode, we're putting my book on hold a little bit as I am racing to finish it.

I'm going to go ahead and finish it before I show anything else to Sean.

So I'm already thinking ahead about what I'm going to need to do after this second draft is done.

And one of the things is thinking about the cast of characters in my book and how I should be

thinking about them and how I can do a good job portraying them and creating them.

So if you are writing a book that has characters in it, then I think you will enjoy

this episode. So let's jump in and get started. So Sean, I'm making good progress on the book.

I've decided I'm just going to finish and show you the finished product. So that's what I'm

working on. I feel like I'll probably, I don't want to box myself in too much, but at my current rate, I should be done in about two weeks with a draft that I'll be ready to show you.

So in the meantime, I've been thinking it's one of these like I feel pretty confident about where I'm going in the story.

And so I'm already kind of

thinking about what I need to do. Honestly, what I've been thinking about a lot is, you know,

several weeks ago during one of the scenes, you're, you just kind of said in passing, like you're

really going to have to ground this world in reality.

And I've been thinking about the characters that are not like the main players.

I feel like I'm trying to decide who the cast of characters is supposed to be in what role

they're supposed to play and trying to be

very careful to not let this block me like the whole emotional valiance thing. But I feel like

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