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

writer. My name is Tim Graal. I'm the host, and I am a struggling writer trying to figure out how to

write my first novel and make sure it's a story that actually works. Joining me in a minute is

Sean Coyne, the creator of Story Grid, author of the book Story Grid,

and he is the sage that is helping me figure all of this stuff out.

In this episode, we dive into many of the problems that you may be having trying to flesh

out your very first novel.

I'm doing it myself, running into all kinds of roadblocks, trying to figure out everything

from character names to how many scenes I need to have in a sequence. And we talked through all

of this stuff, plus a lot more in this episode. So it will definitely help you start planning

out your story and making sure it works before you spend time writing 100,000 words on a story

that doesn't work.

So we're going to jump in and get started.

So, Sean, I have a lot of things to grow you on this week because I've actually been working

almost, I think every day the past week I've worked on my book.

And I've hit so many roadblocks that, well, first of all, I just, I just want to point out, like, this is hard.

Yes.

Like, I, and maybe this is why I'm an entrepreneur anyways.

I always assume I'm like, oh, yeah, I got this.

And then you get into it and you're like, oh, this is going to take me 10 years.

But it's such a weird thing to really sit down and go after this for real.

So I finish, so the Harry Potter story grid is up and it's been neat because every time I've

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