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 struggling writer trying to figure out how to tell a

story that works. Joining me shortly as 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, we are doing another Q&A.

So I grabbed a few questions from the Facebook community and our editors, and I threw them at Sean.

We actually only got through three questions, but touches on a lot of interesting things about genre,

about finding and working with the right

editor, the specifics about mini plot and how that works. So it's a fun episode. So let's jump in

and get started. So Sean, we're just going to jump right in, took some questions from our

listeners and readers. And so let's just start with this one from Kim.

This is about mini plot.

What are the specific conventions of a mini plot?

What are some masterwork examples?

Are there any genres that don't work as a mini plot?

Can you talk about the distinction between mini plot versus ensemble cast?

So most of this podcast we're talking about the arch between mini plot versus ensemble cast. So most of this podcast

we're talking about the arch plot, right? The big one. So how do you approach the mini plot

with all of these story grid principles? Well, the mini plot is fundamentally about the internal

genres.

So many plots, there aren't conventions

and obligatory scenes per se,

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