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 Grawl 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, Sean and I are actually together in person.

He came to Nashville and we spent a day together planning some fun stuff we have coming

out in Story Grid over the next year.

And then we also recorded this episode live together.

So it was a lot of fun. And we continued our discussion about the Foolscap. So in the last episode, we got about halfway through. And as we

continued to work through it in this episode, I really saw the power of this story grid tool and how it

can help you see your story in a whole new

light. So, you know, Sean's thing is to always switch between micro and macro views of your

story. And so going scene by scene was the micro view and doing the full scab was a way is a way

to zoom out and look at your story as a whole.

So really powerful, really showed some things in my story that need fixing.

So I think you'll enjoy this episode a lot.

So let's jump in and get started.

So Sean, in the last episode, we started going through the full scap for my story. We got through the full step for my story.

We got through the first kind of section, the global story where we talk about the genres,

internal and external, the obligatory scenes, the points of view, objects of desire,

and controlling idea and theme.

And we started getting into the beginning hook.

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