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 as 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're continuing the discussion of what it's going to look like to edit

the second book, so the first draft of my second book.

And we get really deep into the Hero's Journey 2.0 stuff.

So this is a class that Sean taught a couple months ago.

And it's really a whole fresh take on not just the Heroes Journey, but Story Grid overall.

And it's really powerful stuff. And it's going to take a few weeks for us to get through it all.

But this is a really great introduction to it. So I think you're going to get a lot out of it.

So let's jump in and get started.

So Sean, before we dive back into the Heroes Journey stuff, it's been a couple weeks

since we've recorded.

And I've now crossed, I think I meant like 71,000 words in.

So I'm in the, the, I'm in the ending payoff.

As I've been going through and writing the book, I've been leaving myself all these notes and like brackets.

Um, of like, oh, I got to go back and weave this in.

I got to set this up. I've got to figure out this piece

I remember back with the threshing I was constantly like oh man this scene wasn't long enough

or oh you know this isn't you know and you kept just encouraging me to keep going so with this

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