Hello and welcome to the Storygrid podcast. My name is Tim Graal. I'm your host 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 he's an editor with over 30 years of experience. Along with him

is Leslie Watts, the editor-in-chief of StoryGrid Publishing, and

Danielle Kiyoski, the chief academic officer of Storygrid University. In this episode, it's

following last week's episode where I was given marching orders on what to write, what's

seen to write as a follow-up to all of the analyzation we've done of Ed McBain's eyewitness.

So we actually start out the episode dissecting a little bit of last week when Sean and I

were having trouble getting on the same page, talk a little bit about what happened there and

what we've learned from it, and then we dive into my scene and you get to take a look and hear

from them on what they think of my efforts to

write my own version of the scene. Now, if you want to see the scene, there's a link below here

on the YouTube channel if you're watching on YouTube. It's down in the description of this video.

If you're listening to this, you can go to storygrid.com slash episode dash 266 to see the

transcript, download my scene, watch the video, all of that kind of stuff just like normal.

So without further ado, let's go ahead and jump into this episode and get started.

Yeah, so I'll start with just talking about last week because,

um, you know, we've been doing the podcast for a long time and we try to do it in this way

where, um, we record, we, we try to give all the feedback on my writing on the podcast. And so that there's never kind of like behind the scene stuff that goes on.

And it was hard because I didn't really want to put out any kind of disagreements or frustration.

But I think it was, I think it was good.

And for me, what I realized later is, you know, as I thought through it, I felt,

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