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 soon is Sean Coyne. He is the author of the book Story Grid, the creator of the Story Grid,

and he is an editor with 25 plus years experience

helping other authors write books

that work and become bestsellers.

In this episode, we discuss how we can actually write more words.

We're all about getting as many words out as possible,

especially during that first draft. We just want to cover the canvas, write as many words out as possible, especially during that first draft.

We just want to cover the canvas, write as many words as we possibly can.

So Sean and I talk about what the wall is.

When do we finally reach the wall where we can't write anymore in a given day?

Is there a wall or is that all in our mind? And I also talk about some specific tactics that I use to write more and less time.

So let's jump in and get started. So, Sean, I've been doing some kind of experimenting with how much

I can write in a day. And because I've always kind of had this sense where I kind of hit a wall. And I'm like,

well, that's, you know, I'm going to just ride until I hit the wall. And then last week,

the wall came at like 700 words. And I'm like, well, that's not good enough. And so what I did is

I was like, well, I'm just going to start the next scene. And if I'm right,

if I get a, you know, 100 or 200 words in and it's, I'm not feeling it. You know, I'll stop.

But as soon as I kind of pushed past and got a couple hundred words in, all of a sudden,

everything started flowing again. And so then I was like, I wonder like how hard I could push this. And so last Saturday, I wrote 6,200 words almost in one sitting. I was, I was on a flight. I had to switch flights and then I wrote the rest there. So like, so I'm just curious your take on just that, like how much writing, you know, can you get done? Like,

are these walls just in our head? You know, because I'm like, dang, like 6,000 words in a day.

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