Hello and welcome to this Storygrid 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 the creator of Story Grid, the author of

the book Story Grid and an editor with over 25 years experience.

In this episode, I have taken another crack at the turning point scene of the middle build.

It continues to surprise me how important this scene is, how hard it is to write, and how much

stuff you have to cram into this thing.

And so I had taken another crack at writing it and send it to Sean.

And so we jump in and start giving feedback, talking about if I got it right,

and if I could do better, what things I could do better.

So it's a great episode.

You know, this is a scene that I've just, like I said,

I've been surprised at how important it is and how hard it is to write. So, you know,

all of us struggle with our middle builds. And I think the turning point scene in the middle

build is often the hardest to write. So hopefully it's a helpful episode for you. So let's

jump in and get started.

So Sean, I took everything.

You know, last week we talked about the turning point scene of the middle build.

So the progressive complication turning point scene of the middle build. And I had written a version of it and I did some things right but

overall it needed a lot of work so you gave me some feedback on it and I successfully procrastinated

for six days after you gave me feedback on it and finally wrote rewrote the version yesterday

and I was thinking as I was writing, I was like really thinking about the life and death

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