Hello and welcome to the Story Grid podcast. This is a show dedicated to helping you become a better writer.

I'm the host Tim Graal and I am a new writer struggling to figure out how to tell a story that works.

And I'm peppering Sean Coyne with as many questions as I possibly can. He is the creator of the story grid. He wrote the book,

The Story Grid. And this podcast is to help me and you, the listener, understand more about how you

can write a story that works. In this episode, we break down the movie Dead Calm that Sean told me

a few weeks ago that I should watch. I finally watched it and we

walk through how the story grid applies to that movie. We also talk about what makes a good setup and we

get into different types of inciting incidents and then we take a turn that I wasn't expecting

and we focus in on narrative devices and we spend a good bit of time working

through those. So it's a really great episode. I know you're going to enjoy it and make sure you

hang on to the very end of the show because I have an epilogue where we cut, we talked for a little

bit and then there was this piece that I just had to add back in that I think will be really helpful.

So that is at the very end of this recording as an epilogue.

So hang in for that, and we'll jump right in.

So I finally got around to watching Dead Calm.

Great.

And it was really interesting because, you know, I was watching it from the

standpoint of, you know, everything from the story grid. And it was neat to see, like, all the

different, all the different ways it kind of did what it's supposed to do.

I think the thing that stood out to me the most was how it went through this, like,

each scene, you know, would have a turn, but they weren't all bad turns.

You know, I think I have it stuck in my head that each scene should make it progressively

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