Hello and welcome to the Story Grid podcast. This is a show dedicated to helping you become a better writer.

I'm your host Tim Grawlin. I am a struggling writer trying to figure out how to tell a story that works.

Joining me shortly is Sean Coyne. He's the creator of Story Grid, the author of the book Story Grid, and an editor with over 25 years experience. In this

episode, I ask a question that's been on my mind a while, which is, how long is this

going to take? We've been working on this book a while now, and I've got exactly 11 scenes.

So how long is this going to take? I recently heard a story about R. L. Stein,

where at the height, he was writing a book every single month. I'm not exactly doing that.

And so I want to know, like, what's normal? And that's where we start and we dive into some

other important matters around that subject. So I think you'll enjoy this. I'm sure we've all

had that wonder sometimes is like, how long is this thing really going to take? So I hope you

enjoy our conversation. Let's dive in and get started. I have some things I want to go over.

I did the homework where I went through each of those four setting things and filled out each of those.

So I feel like it really, I had sent you that document where I thought through the world

and then I specifically went through and thought through those things too.

So I feel like I've got a handle on this world that's happening around Jesse and she's entering into. And I want to talk about

the middle build again. But I want to just, I'm sitting here thinking that, you know, I wrote the

whole first draft. I think it was like February, like end of February to early April. And then

we've been working on it off, you know, we took some

time off over the summer, but otherwise we've been working on it pretty steadily since then.

It's now November and I have 11 scenes. So if I do the math, that means I will finish this book

sometime in 2018 if we keep at this current

pace, which seems a little demoralizing. So I've just been wondering, like, how much longer

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