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

I'm your host Tim Graal. I am a brand new fiction writer trying to figure out how to tell a story that works.

And joining me soon is Sean Coyne, the creator of Story Grid, the author of the book Story Grid, and an editor with 25 plus years experience.

And he's helping me figure out how to tell a story that works.

In this episode, we talk about writing habits.

We talk about how writers get their writing done, when they get it done in the day.

And Sean even shares a couple behind-the-scenes stories of writers that he has worked with

that were really interesting.

We also just dive in a little bit into what a writer's life looks like and my own fear of creating.

So it's a great episode.

I think you're really going to love it.

Let's dive in and get started. So, Sean a great episode. I think you're really going to love it. Let's dive in and get

started. So Sean, I'm finally going to be able to commit the time to writing that I really want to.

I just finished up a big project at work. And my promise to myself was after that I was going to set

aside a certain amount of time to write

every day or work on my book every day I guess I should say and so I started that yesterday

so I'm two days in but I've been thinking a lot about writing habits and how people get their

writing done and how people get their books done and how people get their books done.

And I would love to get your kind of behind the scenes input on how writers really work.

Because you hear people like Stephen King that say write a thousand words every day.

And he probably does write every day.

But then like I hear about these authors that have a year and a half book contract,

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