Hello and welcome to the Story Grid 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 Story Grid, the author of the book Story Grid,

and an editor with over 25 years experience. In this episode, we first

dive into some listener questions. And if you ever have questions for us, you can shoot them to us

at our Twitter profile, which is at StoryGrid. And we get to as many of those as we can. So we

start with some listener questions, and then we dive into some more of

rewriting of my scenes. I also want to stop here and just thank all of you for listening.

This is our 50th episode. When Sean and I started doing this podcast, I only talked him into

agreeing to do 10 episodes and it just got so much response from you

and we were enjoying it. And so we decided to just keep going to see how long we wanted to do it. And we're

at episode 50 and our listenership has only grown and we're enjoying it more and more. And so I just

want to thank you for listening

to it. This is why we do this so we can share it with you. So a big thanks to you for listening

and getting through 50 of these ginormous episodes. So without any further ado, we're going to

jump into this week's episode and get started. So Sean, I sent you the one scene and we'll go over that in a few minutes,

but we have gotten a couple questions from some Twitter followers. And for any of those listening,

if you want to pitch us questions on Twitter, you know, sometimes we'll throw those into the show.

But there was a couple from Peter Michael that I thought would be good.

I think there are probably other questions, other people. I know one of them in particular,

I've wondered too. So let's just start with this one. So could you share your thoughts on why

some books sell spectacularly well, even though they're considered to be poorly written?

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