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 Graal and I am a struggling writer trying to figure out how to tell a

story that works. Joining me shortly as 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, we start off talking about editing, what editing is, how a developmental

editor works with an author, but it morphs into a conversation that I think is really important,

and that is basically how to get to the end of a first draft. There's just so many times

you can get hung up on things, you can get stuck on things and you're not moving forward,

and you can just churn and churn and churn instead of actually getting to a first draft.

But then as you've seen in these episodes, there are times where you need to stop and go back and rewrite and

stop and go back and rewrite. And so how do you know when something is you should actually stop

and go back and rewrite? And when it's like, okay, that's good, it's working and you move on.

And so I think it's a really important conversation. One that I know all authors struggle with is, you know, when you're writing that first draft,

do you keep going?

Do you stop and go back?

When is the right time for both of those?

So I think you really enjoy it.

And hopefully it will help you as you finish your first draft as well.

So let's jump in and get started. So Sean, as we've continued

to work through this book, I've kept having this feeling that like this isn't really a lit

RPG book the way I was planning on it being. And if you look out there at the lit RPG books, basically

there's a whole lot more RPG than what's showing up in my book. And then we've had

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