Hello and welcome to the Storygrid podcast. My name is Tim Graal. I'm the CEO of Storygrid,

and I'm a struggling writer trying to figure out how to tell a story that works.

Joining me shortly is Sean Coyne. He's the creator and founder of StoryGrid and a writer and editor

with over 30 years of experience. Along with him is Danielle Kiyoski, the chief academic officer of StoryGrid

University and Leslie Watts, the editor-in-chief of StoryGrid Publishing. So last week was mostly

good news. I took a crack at writing the first two tropes, and as you listened to last week,

I had a specific way that I went about putting the tropes. And as you listened to last week, I had a specific way that I went about

putting the tropes in my own voice and then rewriting them in the style of a police report.

So we're continuing along this process of writing my own iteration of eyewitness by Ed McBain.

And last week, as you heard, I wrote the first two tropes, and literally

they only wanted me to change one word. I finally cracked how to get myself into this style of a police

report. And so my homework was to continue that for the rest of the scene. So that's what I did.

And that's what you're about to hear in this episode is how I went about doing that.

And then their feedback and changes that they think I need to make for the next iteration.

But it felt really good.

I feel like I'm making progress.

And again, I'm learning a lot about this process.

One of the things I want you to keep in mind here is that this isn't about me writing a perfect scene.

Obviously, we're trying to recreate this scene, write into my own voice, write it with my own

story, use it as a masterwork guide, all the things we've talked about.

But you have to remember,

it's not about just writing this short story. It's about putting tools in my toolbox that I can use in the future. And so as much as we're iterating and iterating and iterating, it's not just

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