Hello and welcome to the Storygrid podcast. My name is Tim Graal 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 and founder of Storygrid.

Along with him is Leslie Watts. She's the editor-in-chief of Storygrid Publishing, and Danielle Kiyoski, the chief academic

officer at Storygrid University.

This is the third of a three-part series where we're looking at the Five Commandments

of Story.

And we're looking at it specifically through the lens of the short story eyewitness by Ed

McBain.

So we've been going through the full 624 analysis for the past several weeks

looking at this short story and we're finishing off with this Five Commandments analysis

and this week we're finishing it up. So let's jump in and get started.

Hi everyone and welcome back. We're going to continue discussing the five commandments of Ed McBain's

eyewitness today. This is the short story that we're going over. That's a crime story, and so we've been

going through the 624 analysis. We've started out with figuring out our beyond the surface levels,

looking at the genre of the story. It's a crime story. And then we looked at the proposition of possibility,

took that down to narrative device and point of view. And now we're in the on the surface level

where we're talking about the five commandments and what's actually happening in the scene.

Last week, we went over the first three of the Five Commandments.

We went over the inciting incident, which happens off stage when Struthers, the protagonist, witnesses the crime.

Then we talked about the turning point progressive complication when the lieutenant comes in and he realizes that the person he's been trying to see all along is actually the murderer.

And we talk about the crisis.

What does Struthers do in the face of that new information that he gets when the lieutenant comes in?

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