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 is 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 continue talking about love stories. Last week, we introduced this as the most

important genre that you can be learning as a writer, and today we are going to dive into exactly

how to write a great love story, the obligatory scenes,

the conventions, and what makes a great love story. Also, I want to mention here before we dive in

that at the end of this episode, I have something really cool to tell you about. It's something

Sean and I've been talking about for a while and we want to

introduce it to you first here on this episode. So make sure that you stay tuned until the very end

and I will tell you about it then. All right, let's get started. So Sean, last week, you know,

I asked the question of if I had to pick a genre that was the most likely to work and the one I probably

you know could master to spread across the most stories and I asked that question you said it was

the love story and so we started diving into that and we didn't get all the way through it but

you know just give a quick recap on like

what we went over last week and why the love story is so important. Oh, okay. Well,

the love story I maintain is, is the first one everybody should consider mastering because

love stories are the perfect thing to meld with other genres.

For example, you know, love story and horror, when you mash those things two together,

you get Twilight, right? And that's incredible. That's an incredibly commercially successful.

Yeah, it's not okay. Yeah, it's not okay yeah it's done okay right like love and crime you get something like mr and mrs smith which is you know Brad Pitt and

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