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 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 move from the micro to the macro.

So one of Sean's rules is if you're really concentrating on something small and you're stuck,

you then go big and you look big at your story.

Once you do that work, you can then go back small.

And so I've been spending a couple weeks doing the spreadsheet where I'm going scene by scene

through my book. And now we go back to macro and start talking about the full Scap story grid

and putting everything on one page. So it's another great way to look at a story grid tool.

And we actually kick off the episode with a question from a story grid listener. So I think this is a

great episode as we continue diving in how to do the editing of your first draft. Let's get started.

So Sean, before we jump into my spreadsheet and, you know, getting through this first draft

and everything, I was chatting with one of the guys from our workshop, and he had a question

that I thought was a good question because I thought the question, which means if two of us

have lots of people have out there.

So I don't know if it was last week or the week before, you kind of threw out this like, you know, something, you know,

oh, we'll get to that on the seventh draft or something like that.

And so this guy was like, you know, what does this mean for my writing career, the idea that I have to do like seven, eight, nine drafts on a book?

Because you have, you know, these masterpieces that people are trying to create over a long period of time.

And then you have these authors that have, you know,

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