Hello and welcome to the Storygrid podcast. This is a show dedicated to helping you level up your craft as a writer.

My name is Tim Graal and I am a writer and the behind the scenes guy here at Storygrid.

This podcast episode is hosted by Storygrid certified editor Kimberly Kessler, alongside Sean Coyne, the founder of StoryGrid, and an editor with over 30 years of experience.

In this episode, Kim and Sean start their discussion on the three types of beats by looking specifically at active beats and how they are used in your writing.

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Okay, that's all on the announcement.

So let me turn it over to Kim and Sean.

That's really what, you know, prompted me wanting to have this discussion with you.

And also what I found so personally useful about the Trinity seminar was because when you really

started to unpack this top down, bottom up thing, you know, and that, you know, the editor

brain being sort of this top down thing and the writer brain being, you know, writers are bottom

up, right?

They start with these pieces in there.

They're building towards something.

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