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 the creator of Story Grid, the author of the

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

In this episode, we take a look at the Story Grid spreadsheet I did for Die Hard. Over the holiday

break, I spent some time sitting on the couch in my pajamas while my kids played video games

watching Die Hard and putting it into a spreadsheet.

And it was a really helpful exercise. And I come away with some thoughts and some questions

that Sean and I go over in this episode. So I think it's a lot of fun and hopefully you'll get

something out of it. So let's jump in and get started.

So Sean, over the holiday break, you and I have been talking a lot about, you know, we've gone over, in recent weeks, we've gone over some different fundamental story grid stuff that

we hadn't directly touched on in a long time. And then I've been wrestling

with my middle, the second draft of my middle build. And so one of the things I was wanting to do

was to go back and look at some different, since my book is an action labyrinth, what is it,

an action genre, labyrinth plot.

Yeah.

I wanted to go back and look at some other, you know, stories that have used that.

And the one in the Storygrid book that you use an example is diehard.

And so over the holiday break, while my kids were playing their new Xbox, I was sitting on the couch with my headphones in watching die hard in like 30 second increments.

So I filled it out and I'll put the link in the show notes so anybody listening can go to

storygrid.com slash podcast and link over

because I have it on Google Drive and a spreadsheet. And so I spread, I did the story grid spreadsheet

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