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'm a writer in 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 wrap up their discussion of beats by diving into

expository beats and how they work in your writing.

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at storygrid.com slash guild. Okay, that's it for me, So let me turn it over to Kim and Sean.

In all of the stuff that we're talking about, right, these are our bottom up tools that are

emerging now. These are the beats, these different types of beats. These are bottom up tools

that are being created and that you introduced at the Trinity

seminar of these different types of beats and that we can use at the line level to build our scenes

ultimately so we can tell our thematic, meaningful, cathartic story.

So we've talked about the active beat, the stimulus and response of the active beat and the three

types there.

And now we've talked about the passive beat, which is a stimulus and I guess would you

call it no response or just a response that is not direct?

It's an indirect response. I guess how would you categorize that response or just a response that is not direct, it's an indirect response?

I guess how would you categorize that one?

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