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 at Storygrid along with running all of the operations around here.

Starting with this episode, we are changing up the format.

Storygrid certified editor Kimberly Kessler will be hosting alongside Storygrid founder Sean

Coen, an editor with over 30 years of experience.

In this episode, they are discussing how the Storygrid Trinity applies to global internal genres.

Before we jump in, I want to mention two things you might be interested in.

First, if you haven't seen the Storygrid Masterwork Guide to Lynn Manuel Miranda's Hamilton,

I highly recommend you take a look.

StoryGrid certified editor Abigail K. Perry shows us that Miranda's skills as a storyteller are equal to his gifts as a composer.

We see how he brilliantly weaves together story genres,

including a complex love story, a bloody war story, a performance story, and a society

story about a world turned upside down, all within the overarching status tale of a hero's

tragic rise and fall. You can get 20% off of the masterwork guide to

Hamilton and all of our books at storygrid.com slash books and use the coupon code podcast.

Lastly, the next Storygrid certified editor training is coming up this February. There are big

benefits to being a part of this elite group of story nerds.

You can see all of the details at storygrid.com slash certification. Okay, that's all on the

announcement, so let me turn it over to Kim and Sean. Okay, hi Sean. It's so great to be here

with you, and I am just super excited to have this opportunity

to pick your brain publicly in front of everyone. So I'm just super excited to be here. And I want

to start very selfishly to talk about global internal genres because that is my jam. So I have some, you know, I just want to talk about

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