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 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 get to actually dive into the editing process.

So the subtitle of the book, The Story Grid, is What Good Editors Know.

And we've spent the last nine months or so just working on a first draft of my story.

And now that the first draft is done,

we get to actually dive into the editing process, which is exciting for me to change pace a little bit. And we start to get to use all these really cool story grid tools, like the spreadsheet

and the graphs and all that kind of stuff. And as usual, I get out in front of myself and Sean kind of reels me back in in this episode.

And we start talking about exactly what I need to be doing now that the first draft is done

and what I've got to do to get to a second draft.

So it's a really fun episode.

I'm really excited for you, the listener, you no longer

have to just hear me slog through my story scene by scene. We actually get to dig into the editing

side. And this episode in particular has some really actionable advice for you. So once you get that

first draft done, what do you do? How can you use StoryGrid to edit it and get

a much, much better second draft? So that's what we talk about in this episode. That's what my

homework consists of. And I think it's going to be a lot of fun over the coming weeks as we start

to dig into the editing side of this process. So I'm going to stop talking and jump in and we can get started. So Sean, it was

nice to be done with the first draft for now. I guess done with the first draft and moving on to

the editing. And I think our listeners will enjoy a nice change of pace of actually editing something instead of just churning through a story.

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