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 is Sean Coyne. He is the creator of StoryGrid, the author of the

book Story Grid and an editor with over 25 years experience. In this episode,

we start talking about a new project we're doing here at StoryGrid that I think is,

first of all, I think it's been a long time coming. I think everything we're going to take you

through, what you're going to learn. I don't want to give anything away until we actually get into

it, but it's really exciting for me. I think it's something that, again, has been a long time coming

that you're really going to enjoy. So Sean talks about that, give some background on it and how

you can be a part of it. So I'm not going to give anything else away because we're going to talk

about it throughout the episode. So I'm excited to jump in

and get started. So Sean, I'm excited, really excited to do this episode and record this because

just yesterday we opened up registration for something brand new that we haven't done at StoryGrid

before. We're calling it Ground Your Craft.

And so I want to kind of get into it of like what it is and why we're doing and how all the

editors are going to be involved and all that. But first just start by telling us what this thing is.

Okay. You know, when I wrote StoryGrid and when I wrote the book and when I

started the website, I really, I didn't have sort of this grand global vision of what exactly

it is I wanted StoryGrid to become. So since the time, and it's almost five years now, when I published the book

and we started, you know, getting more and more people involved in the website, I started thinking

about, well, if someone were to, you know, put the power of teaching story principles

to everybody on the planet,

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