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 Mike McClellan.

He's the author of The San Sea, an epic fantasy novel that we published earlier this year through Storygrid

Publishing. This is part three of my conversation with Mike, where we talk about all kinds of

things around his writing, working with Sean, putting his book through the story grid. It's been a

really great conversation. If you haven't listened to Part 1 and 2, you can check your feed for that.

Otherwise, let's go ahead and get started on this final part of this series.

When you say rewrite, because I'm always curious what people mean by rewrite, because

like I've done rewrites where you literally just have to add

like a sentence to a few scenes to kind of like make sure it all ties together or were you like

literally going through and just like ripping out the the middle of it and rebuilding it from the

beginning like what so you said you had to beef up Hannah and add this space out the middle of it and rebuilding it from the beginning. Like what?

So you said you had to beef up Hannah and add this,

the supernatural elements.

But like what, what did your daily like work look like in 2017?

Because I think sometimes that's even harder as taking this thing you've

already created and trying to like change it. It's almost like the ship's already going in one

direction and now trying to like get it to go in a different direction is harder. So what did what did that

look like? I almost don't want to tell you the truth because it's so crazy.

I literally started with a blank page and rewrote the whole thing.

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