Hello and welcome to episode four of the Story Grid podcast. I'm your host, Tim Graal,

and this podcast is dedicated to walking through all of the ideas in the book, The Story Grid,

and putting them into real life to help you become a better writer. So we've been doing that

over the first three episodes and we dive into a lot of fun stuff in this episode.

We talk about how we assume Stephen King does his writing.

We talk about the difference between learning and flailing.

And we start to dive into what character development really is and how to use the almighty content leaf from the Storygrid book.

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And here is Sean and I as we dive into this week's episode.

Okay, I want to start out this one just, I had this thing pop in my head the other day as I was talking about something and it came back to

on writing by Stephen King when he talks about where his story ideas come from and then how he

writes his stories.

And he basically, he makes it sound like he comes up with this scenario he wants to write

and he like just sits down and starts typing and the story falls out the other end.

And I feel like, and so all the, you know, when I, you know, there's this constant, like,

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