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 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 finally dive into the entirety of my beginning hook. So I submit the 11 scenes. Two of them

we've gone over on the show, so nine new scenes. So 11 total scenes is a beginning hook in my story,

and Sean and I start working through those. And as you can imagine,

there's some ups and downs in our conversation. So as we've gotten feedback on the show, many

times it's this deep dive critique getting in the weeds to talk about this stuff that a lot of

you really enjoy. And if that's you, then you're going to enjoy this episode. So let's jump in and get

started. So Sean, I finished the next nine scenes that got us to like the end of the beginning

hook. I sent you those to look over. I've only thrown up twice since I did that. And so now I want to, where do we start?

What do we, what do we do we do now? Okay, well, I need to just say one thing. I only, I got this

yesterday, which was Wednesday. We usually, we usually tape on Wednesday, but we pushed it to Thursday. So I've had it for

about, I don't know, maybe 20 hours. So all of the things that I'm going to say now about it,

you have to sort of take it with a grain of salt. I'm confident in what I'm going to say, but as I work,

I usually get better and better as I go. So I'm confident in what I'm going to say, but as I work, I usually get better and

better as I go. So I'll tell you what I've done with the material. First of all, this goes to

sort of what an editor does. I go over in the story grid in the book, and this is exactly what I did.

And I did exactly what I recommend editors do in the book. I read the book. And this is exactly what I did. And I did exactly what I recommend editors do in the book.

I read the material just without trying to make any editorial thinking about it, just to get the

flow of it. And then after I let it sit for a little while, it was good because you worked in scenes, so you just

gave me 11 straight files. So I didn't have to do my usual printout and staple and all that

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