Hello and welcome to the Storygrid podcast. My name is Tim Graal. I'm your host and I am a writer

trying to figure out how to tell a story that works. Joining me shortly as Sean Coyne, he's the

creator and founder of the Story Grid methodology, the author of the book The Story Grid. And along

with him is Leslie Watts, our editor-in-chief of StoryGrid Publishing, and Daniel Kiyoski,

the chief academic officer of StoryGrid University.

Now, before we jump in today, I want to mention that coming up in just a couple weeks,

we are opening up the registration for the StoryGrid Guild.

So I hope you've been enjoying this new series we've been

doing on the podcast, which started with the 624 analysis of eyewitness by Ed McBain. Now, a lot of

times when you hear this stuff on the podcast and you hear these tools on the podcast, they kind of feel like they

just came just intact, right? Like we have this 624 analysis. It's these six sections. It's 24

questions. It's how we analyze stories. But as you've seen, what you see on the podcast isn't the

origins of where it came from. It's the same thing with

the beat analysis. So if you follow it along the weeks where we were looking at the beat analysis

and we're looking at input and output, we're looking at the valancing of them, and we're looking

at the misattunement and all of that. Again, we're kind of teaching this wholesale. So we're looking at it. We're looking

at eyewitness through that lens and then we're looking at my writing through that lens.

But this stuff, you know, just didn't come out, you know, this stuff didn't exist even a couple

years ago, these tools. And I think we forget that sometimes. And so like the original story grid material, if you've been following along, this is episode 270. So we've been doing this for a while now. The original book, the story grid, that was based on, you know, decades of Sean actually working with writers and helping editing their book and all of that.

And so when you first look at the spreadsheet and you see the 13 columns and how he analyzes

the scenes, again, it's like when I see it now, I'm like, oh, yeah, that makes total sense.

But that was like him actually deciding one day to sit down with a spreadsheet and analyze a book, which

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