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 take another big step towards finishing up this novel of mine.

So we've been cranking through the hero's archetypes, we've been cranking through

grounding the world and reality, and now we're taking some big steps towards actually going

through scene by scene and figuring this book out and finishing it up. So it's a really fun

episode for me. I feel really good about it in the direction we're going. And so for those of you

that have been following along all these years, hopefully you're excited, too, to kind of see this thing really start getting tied up and finished up.

So anyway, it's a great episode.

I think you'll really enjoy it.

Let's jump in and get started.

So Sean, you gave me my homework last time.

We'll first rewrite the Herald scene with Randy

ending payoff of the book. So I did that and sent that to you. And then it was also to go through

the 15 scenes that every book has to have. And that would be the inciting incident progressive complication crisis climax and resolution

for the beginning hook middle build and ending payoff and so I was a little worried about it

because you know when I start look every time I look at this book I find all the holes and so I was

like all right what am I going to find?

And, but I ended up feeling like I could, I found them all pretty quickly. And so I just sent that

list to you with the scene number. Yeah, so let's just start there. Sure. Okay, the Herald scene,

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