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, Sean and I begin walking through the 15 scenes.

It's the homework he gave me a couple episodes ago, where he listed out the 15 scenes

at every story, every book has to have.

And so I went and did my homework and kind of listed out what I think is the scene for each of

those. And we start working through those looking at how they should work. If I picked the right

scene, if I didn't pick the right scene. And so it's a really good episode, especially if you're

evaluating your own novel of looking at your own 15 scenes. So let's jump in and get

started. So Sean, we're the last episode when we were talking about the threshing, we were talking

about how to step back into the novel and how I'm halfway through with the second draft. And that's

where I stopped to work on

running down a dream. And now that that's finished, I'm back ready to work on the threshing again.

So we've talked about a bunch of stuff, and one of the things you had me do was we talked about

the 15 most important scenes that every novel has to have, and we went through

each of those, and then my homework was to go through each of those and basically map out what

that's going to be in my book, what those scenes are going to be in my book. And it was, it was really

helpful for me to think back through this stuff because some of these,

well, most of these decisions we've already made. And but I found like one issue and what we were

planning on doing that I felt like needed to like a major point needed to be moved to a different

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