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, we continue

working through the 15 most important scenes inside of my story. And we pick up where we left off

last week and continue through. Sean also takes some time to talk a lot about just generally

the conflicts inside of a story and what we're trying to accomplish with

all of this stuff. And so I think it's a really good episode, not just to continue to walk

through these scenes in my story and hear us work through those, but also to just continue to

hear this kind of higher view of what we're trying to accomplish in a story. So

it's been a really useful tool for it to go through these 15 scenes for me. And so hopefully

it's useful for you as well to follow along. So let's jump in and get started. So Sean,

a few weeks ago, you laid out the 15 most important scenes that every book has to have.

And then, so my homework was to go through and outline those scenes in the threshing, my own book.

So I did that.

And last week, we started working through them.

And we got through seven of the scenes

in the first part and we stopped at the crisis of the middle build.

Right.

So how do you want to jump in?

Well, I think the best way to jump in, especially for restarting the conversation, is to,

you know, get in the helicopter and go 30,000,

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