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 writer trying to figure out how to tell a story that works.

With me is Sean Coyne.

He's the founder and creator of the Story Grid.

Danielle Kowalski is the chief academic officer, and Leslie Watts is our story grid publishing

editor-in-chief.

And this week, Leslie is going to be taking the wheel and walking us through a narrative device.

So, Leslie, I'm going to let you get us started here.

Okay, great.

So we're going to talk about the narrative device for our, the pattern that we're using to help you write your next short story.

And that's eyewitness from Ed McBain, which is a great story.

And I highly recommend that you grab the

the anthology that that's included in.

So just a little bit about narrative device before we dive into the questions.

The narrative device is part of our 624 analysis that gives you

six levels of analysis of a story or scene and with 24 questions. And it's all about really

incorporating the ideas of story as communication, especially when we're down at the narrative device level.

So a story is a signal of the controlling idea of the story. That's the message that the, that the writer wants to send,

wants to share with their mass audience.

And we deliver that through our,

what we're calling our pop.

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