Hello and welcome to episode three of the Storygrid podcast. I'm your host Tim Graal and

Sean Coyne will be joining me shortly. He is the author of the Storygrid book and the mastermind

behind this entire podcast. I just want to thank you again for being part of this podcast. We're now on

episode three and it's been really fun to see everybody's reactions to the first two episodes.

Downloads continue to go up.

You guys continue to share it on Facebook and Twitter, and we're starting to get questions that we're going to integrate into future episodes of the podcast.

Our whole goal with this podcast is to help you become a better writer.

I'm beginning my journey as a fiction writer, and Sean is helping me along the road with this podcast,

and hopefully it will help you find your way along your road of becoming a better writer as well.

So we're going to jump in. This is a fun episode. We're talking about

objects of desire. We're continuing to talk about different types of genre and content genre,

and we even get into the hero's journey a little bit. So I hope you enjoy it, and let's jump right in.

So, Sean, how's your week been? You're traveling, aren't you? I am. It's been pretty hectic.

I'm actually on a move from New York to Massachusetts, so I've got my hands full.

So you're moving from New York to Massachusetts?

Yeah, my kids are moving to a different school, so my wife and I are actually going to go with them.

Oh, wow.

I'm kidding. They're still in elementary schools, so I think they lock me away and throw away the key if I didn't go with my kids.

Yeah, yeah.

So, yeah, last week we were talking about the reality part of genre.

But there's four other pieces.

And I just kind of want to keep working through those because, honestly, going through

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