Hello and welcome to the 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 is 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, as I continue to work towards

finishing off the draft of the threshing, we decided we would go back and look at some of the

basic ideas of story grid and especially just go through the book again. This is how we started

the podcast. We've tried to do it

here and there where we just go back and look at the basics. And it was funny, you know, I've been

doing this podcast for three and a half years. And when I opened up the book this morning to

prepare for the podcast, I just noticed something interesting that once I saw it, it was obvious, but it's

one of those things I just never noticed before. So you might listen to me talk and be like,

oh yeah, of course, Tim. You should have known that by now. But maybe you're like me and

sometimes seeing something from a new angle is really helpful. So it's all about genre. I think it's a really fun

episode and let's jump in and get started. So Sean, I've been continuing to work on my draft and

fixing it and it's been really fun. I'm probably about a third of the way through the middle

build now. So I'm making progress and it's been fun because

like this morning so I have a recurring alarm in the morning at 5 a.m. to wake me up and I always

snooze it until about 535 35 because I have to get the kids up at 6 I get up and make coffee and all

that and this morning,

it went off at five and my eyes popped open and I thought, ooh, I want to work on the book.

And so like I jumped out of bed at five and I got like an extra 35, 40 minutes to like I got through

a couple scenes and I had to re-wrote. It doesn't matter, but it's just, it's been

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