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 am a struggling writer trying to figure out how to tell a

story that works. Joining me shortly as 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, we do something that I'm kind of flabbergasted we've never done before,

which is a Q&A.

So I went on Twitter, I went on Facebook, and I invited questions from listeners,

and I got a few dozen of them, and we only got through a few in this

episode. So we're going to do this for at least a couple weeks of trying to get through as many

questions that you have because I've always seen myself as kind of the stand in for all the

listeners. And so now I want to let you actually submit questions.

So that's what we did.

And so I'm just going to jump in and get started.

Let's start with this one.

I like this one.

So can you tell us how making a story with multiple protagonists works with the

hero's journey like in Game of Thrones?

Sure. I'm not all that familiar in Game of Thrones? Sure.

I'm not all that familiar with Game of Thrones, so I'll talk about something like, you

know, Lord of the Rings.

The way you do it is you think about a single protagonist, and then you sort of split

the protagonist up into however many parts that you would like. So say there's

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