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 Kral 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. Before we jump into

this episode, I wanted to let you know that if you go to storygrid.com, if you haven't been there

and browsed around in a while, we now have a book section where you can see all of the books

that we published through Storygrid publishing so far. So far, we have seven books up there that are

available. You have smaller books that are focused on writing an action story, writing nonfiction.

We have the Storygrid Masterwork Guide to Malcolm Gladwell's The tipping point. We also just put up

the story grid analysis of my book, The Threshing. And of course, you can get a copy of

my book, The Threshing there as well. And we just put up a coupon code. So if you put in the podcast at checkout,

so just put podcast in the coupon code box at checkout, you can get 20% off of all of our books. So that's all available now

at storygrid.com. If you haven't gone there and checked them out, I highly recommend that you do.

I'm really, really happy with what we have coming out of the publishing house already.

Okay, in this episode, Sean and I talk about the first full sequence that I wrote for the next book in the Threshing

series. And this is the first time I'm delving into writing multiple storylines. So we talk a little

bit about that as well. But for those of you that have enjoyed following along as I've

written a novel, this is another one of those as I'm trying to

kind of flail through what this next novel is going to look like. So let's jump in and get

started. So Sean, I, so last week I had sent you the first scene and a kind of outline for

the beginning hook.

And that seemed to go okay.

So I pressed forward.

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