Hello and welcome to this Storygrid podcast. This is a show dedicated to helping you become a better writer.

I'm your host Tim Graal and I'm 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, with next month being National Novel Writing Month,

Sean and I wanted to talk about the best way to prepare to write an entire novel in one month.

And so Sean walks us through the first few questions

you need to answer as you prepare to outline your story for Nanorimo. So I think it's a great

episode. It's a really great one too where he takes a lot of kind of vast story grid advice

and packs it all down into just one episode.

So whether you're doing nanorimo or not, if you're preparing to write a new novel,

this is a great episode.

I think you'll really enjoy it.

So let's jump in and get started.

So Sean, I'm looking at the calendar and I'm a little appalled that it is already October.

I'm not sure what happened to the year.

And so thinking through this, that means in just a couple of weeks, it's going to be November,

which means nanorimos coming up. And so I was thinking about like, so I've won

nanorimo twice where I've actually, you know, written a 50,000 word manuscript in the 30 days of

November. Wow. I didn't know that. Yeah. Yeah. I mean, it wasn't good, but, you Wow, I didn't know that.

Yeah, yeah, I mean, it wasn't good, but, you know, I got the words in.

Yeah, one of them, so one of the early, one of them was, I can't remember if it was the first or second.

I had this, it was like this time travel thing where you don't know it's a time travel thing to the end,

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