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 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.

This week is a great follow- up to last week when I was

basically ready to quit on my book. Sean gave me some advice. I followed that advice. And then

this episode, he does a really good job walking me through how to finish this book, how to look at it

from a different perspective, how to apply some story

grid tools to it, and how to get me over that finish line and finishing this second draft.

So it's a really great episode.

I think you'll love it.

So let's jump in and get started.

So Sean, first of all, thank you for, you know, talking me off that very high ledge last week.

It like, I like hung up that phone and was just, I felt like a weight had fallen off my shoulders.

And I don't really, like there are several things you said that were super helpful.

But I think just overall, like kind of pulling me up out of the weeds and telling

me, like, you know, just everything was just really great. I felt like, okay, this is something I can

actually do. So I sat down with the manuscript, and the first thing I did, so I did a couple things.

So I started just kind of sketching out an outline of the rest of the story and what it

would look like.

And so I spent some time going back through the spreadsheets I've made of other stories,

some of the other like stories I've looked at is kind of in the

vein, like hunger games, that kind of thing, thinking through and then just sat down and

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