Hello and welcome to the 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, I'm continuing my work on my nonfiction book, running down a dream.

And over the couple previous episodes, I finally had a breakthrough on what the book was about.

And so I went back through and rewrote a huge

section of the book and sent it over to Sean to get his feedback and to make sure that I was

going in the right direction. So it's a good episode. I continue to struggle with how to talk about

these episodes because it's such a personal journey for me, but I know that writing is a

personal journey for everybody. So I hope you get a lot out of it, and let's jump in and get

started. So, Sean, based on our talk a couple weeks ago, I went back through and tried to rewrite

the first section of the book from this point of view of telling my

own story. So what I kept trying to think of was, you know, how did I write the introduction

and how did that feel and then start applying that to the chapters.

And I started, so I had to like rearrange things and it was really, we'll get into the specifics

of how I did it.

But anyway, so I sent you about 9,500 words.

That was the next, forget how many chapters, trying to rewrite it from the point

of view of telling my story instead of this kind of how-to stuff. So curious, your thoughts on

how I'm doing so far. Well, one of the things that a lot of people ask me is, is how do you know

when your editing is working for a client?

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