Hello and welcome to the Storygrid 101, the fundamental episode of the Storygrid Masterwork

Podcast. We're part of a growing Storygrid community that includes thousands of writers and

editors from all over the world. We're dedicated to helping writers improve their craft through

books, podcasts, courses, and online forums. In this Storygrid Masterwork podcast, we'll be reading and analyzing great books to learn what

makes them work so well.

I'm your host, Bib Bailey.

This season, we're reading The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, El Frank Baum's classic novel

about a young girl's heroic journey.

In each episode, I'll read you one of the book's 24 scenes.

Then we'll analyze the scene using Story Grid tools in order to understand how and why this

story endures and still captivates readers more than a century after it was written.

Editor and publisher, Sean Coyne, developed StoryGrid's tools during 30 years in the storytelling

business.

He's applied his knowledge to dozens of best-selling fiction and nonfiction books, and

now shares what he's learned with us in the StoryGrid community.

In this episode, we'll give you an introduction to the why and how of StoryGrid.

Even if you're already familiar with our tools and methods, we encourage you to check

out this introduction because we're approaching this masterwork in a fresh way.

In subsequent episodes, we'll take our journey with Dorothy and her friends, but first

let's look at why we picked this story for the podcast. The Wonderful Wizard of Oz is on a short list of iconic stories mentioned

whenever writers and readers talk about the heroic journey.

The heroic journey, often called the hero's journey,

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