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 dive back into my story. We go over the last few scenes that I've written,

and we start talking about the next sequence in the story. And I think that's what's exciting for

me is we're starting to move from looking at individual scenes to looking at sequences

because I think Sean can trust me to write a decent scene now and is allowing me to go a little

deeper. So I'm excited about this episode because we're getting closer and closer to the end

of the beginning hook, which will allow us to dive into the

middle build of the story, which I think is going to be really important to start working

through that because that's going to be, you know, 50% of the story. So anyway, we dive into a new

sequence in this. I think you're going to enjoy it. So let's jump in and get started. So Sean, we're back into my story.

So we've gotten four or five scenes done or approved to the point where I can keep going.

And so we're on to the next sequence, the sequence where Jesse runs away, tries to go home, and gets dragged back.

Now, originally, I wrote two scenes that you, you know, had some tweaks too, but they seemed to be

all right.

And then the third scene that kind of wrapped that sequence up, I had flashed forward and

kind of looking back, like, she was safe and then looking back at what happened.

And you're like, no, no, no, you got to keep telling the story in real time and draw out, draw out that suspense.

So I threw out that scene and rewrote it.

So the first two scenes, I basically just tweak some things to fit some of the decisions

we've made. Like, you know, everybody goes out at night. Everybody's in during the day. So I tried

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