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 Grawl and I am a struggling writer trying to figure out how to tell a story that works.

Joining me shortly is Sean Coyne. He is the creator of Story Grid, the author of the book Story Grid,

and an editor with over 25 years experience.

So, Sean and I have taken a few weeks off. It's actually the first weeks we've ever missed

in the history of the Story Grid podcast. So we missed doing the show. We were excited to come

back and record this episode, which actually ended up going a little long, because we're

going through the final

scenes and sequences of my middle build. So I've spent the last couple weeks working through

the final scenes of the middle build. It ended up, I think, being about nine or ten scenes.

And Sean and I worked through them, talked about what worked and what didn't.

So I think it's going to be a fun episode. If you've been following along, you know this

has been a long slog getting through the middle build. So go ahead and jump in and listen.

And I think you'll enjoy as we walk through. And then we're able to move on and actually start

the ending payoff of the book,

which I'm very excited to get that much closer to a final first draft. So anyway, we'll jump in

and get started. So Sean, I've spent the last few weeks that we took off writing the next

couple of sequences of my book.

So I sent you, I actually forgot, I think it was 10 scenes, three, six, it was 11 scenes, roughly 10,000 words because I can't seem to write a long scene.

And so we left off where Jesse had met her brother during the second severing,

and that was the middle point of the book.

So she met him, and he said that he would give her instructions,

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