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 Graal 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 a creator of StoryGrid, the author of the book

Story Grid and an editor with over 25 years experience. In this episode,

we start off talking a little bit about the book Running Down a Dream and the fact that that's

coming out soon, how I'm feeling about that. And then we dive into the progressive complication

turning point of the middle build scene. I rewrote that based on what we talked about last week.

And so Sean and I go over that and start talking about what I did right and of course what I did

wrong. So I think it's a helpful episode. I think you'll enjoy it as you're trying to figure out

how to turn your own book. So let's jump in and get started. So Sean, before we get into

the scene from the threshing, I want to talk a little bit about running down a dream coming out.

And I figured this will probably become a theme for the next few weeks because we're just

actually, what's today? I think today when we're recording this is the 11th.

So it's a month from today that the book comes out. Yep. And so it's just been interesting because

Candice was asking me yesterday, like how you feeling about it, you know, how you doing with it?

And I remember talking when

I first started working with a lot of authors I would always get confused because when their

book was about to come out they would have these like competing things where they wanted to be

a bestseller or they wanted to sell a bunch of copies, but they didn't want any one person

to actually read the book and review the book or like put a review on Amazon or any of those

things. And I really understand that of like, I'm both terrified that the book won't do well

and also terrified that the book will do well.

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