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.

In this episode, we dive into how to rewrite your scenes. As I'm going back through these scenes

that Sean has edited, I'm trying to figure out the best way to rewrite them because I feel like

my kind of natural thing is to just let's throw it

out and start over, but that's kind of inefficient. And so Sean walks me through how to rewrite scenes,

how you can approach your scenes, and the right way to do that. And so for all of us listening,

I'm sure this is going to be an episode that's really helpful.

So let's dive in and get started.

So, Sean, I've been working on this rewrite and I'm really struggling with, I've never actually

rewrote anything like this.

And I'm facing this a little bit with my first book to your first 1,000 copies. I wanted to

write a second edition. I got this editor to give me all this. It was like 20 pages of things that I

should add and change and everything. And it makes me just want to throw everything out and write again from scratch.

And so when I'm looking at rewriting some of these scenes,

I'm really struggling with not just throwing away everything

and just rewriting it again based on your advice.

But I know that's a really inefficient way to do things.

So how do you suggest I approach, like if I have this scene that's 1,500 words,

but like 700 of the words need to change,

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