Hello and welcome to the Storygrid podcast. My name is Tim Graal and I am a struggling writer trying to

figure out how to tell a story that works. Helping me along that journey is Sean Coyne. He's the

creator of StoryGrid, the author of StoryGrid, and has 25 plus years experience in editing

in traditional publishing, self-publishing, and everything in

between. If you remember from last episode, I talk about using Harry Potter as a guide to

outline my own story. So I began story gritting out Harry Potter, and you can actually see that

in the show notes for this episode at storygrid.com slash

podcast.

I have a link to my spreadsheet where I've story gridded out the entire thing and you can see

it there.

So we talked through as I've gotten started doing that and then we get into just different

things.

We talk about specificity.

We talk about the publishing industry, ends and outs, how to do research, all these types different things. We talk about specificity, we talk about the publishing industry,

ends and out, how to do research, all these types of things. It's a really great episode.

If you've tried to story grid your own book or you're thinking about story griding your own book,

this is a great place to start. So let's jump in and get started. So Sean, last week we talked about basically taking a book

and laying it out and going through it and store gritting it and then using that as a map to

map out your book. And it's one of these things like, I think the only reason I've ever found

success at anything is because I

greatly underestimate the amount of work something takes and so I just start and then I'm like

oh this will be easy and so so I started working on story gritting Harry Potter and the Sorcerer

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