Hello and welcome to this 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 struggling writer trying to figure out how to tell a story

that works. Joining me shortly is Sean Coyne. He is a creator of Story Grid, the author of the book

Story Grid and an editor with over 25 years experience. In this episode,

I sent on a few more scenes to look at and he starts discussing what the title of this episode

comes from, which is putting off the inevitable. So I think this is something all writers do, at least I do, and I know some

my friends that do, that once they come up to those scenes that they really are afraid of writing,

they start coming up with other things to write instead of actually plowing through. So hopefully this will be a helpful

episode for you. Let's jump in and get started so sean before

we get into my scenes i wanted to mention so about a month ago i entered a writing contest

and it was for a man in the whole scene because one of the guys running the contest came to the

Story Grid Workshop and he was inspired by the whole man and the whole thing.

So it was a 2,000 word short story, man in the hole and gets back out of the hole.

And so I'd never done a writing contest before.

You know, because the way I came into this whole writing thing was I kind of fell in, fell backwards into it. You know, most people are like doing it and

like have groups and, you know, local scenes that they're a part of and you're pretty much the only

person I talked to about it.

So, yeah, so I entered the contest and I found out that I got fourth place out of over 400

entries, which I thought was pretty cool.

Wow.

And yeah, I was surprised because I felt like the whole scene was kind of contrived. But I did it without your input, you know, didn't get your editing or anything. And I did the whole, just like I do the scenes for the show, which is wait until the last possible minute and sit down and write it all at once. And submitted it. And, you know, And we were talking earlier about the importance of writing scenes and how far I've come.

If you go back and compare what I was writing a year ago to what I can write in a scene now,

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