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 the creator of Story Grid, the author of the book Story Grid,

and an editor with over 25 years experience.

In this episode, we continue walking through the hero's journey 2.0 and how this is going to apply to your work and my work moving forward.

This week specifically we look at that third quadrant.

So in the past, we've talked about the beginning hook, the middle build, and the ending payoff.

And now instead of looking at it as three pieces, we're looking at it as four.

And we really dive into that third piece.

And it's really helpful for me.

I just finished the manuscript for my novel and I'm going to be going back through it,

spreadsheeting it and looking at it through these different lenses.

And so looking at this alongside of that has been really helpful for me.

So I think you'll enjoy this episode.

So let's jump in and get started so Sean this

morning I finished the first draft of the second book in the threshing series

wow congrats it's great yeah it's just over 90,000 words.

Um, yeah, and it's, it was one of those, like I finished it and then I was like, oh, okay, well, uh, what now?

So do you, is this, is this where like i should go ahead and because we've talked about a

couple different things like uh and anyway should i be should i go through and like spreadsheet it

first do you want to go ahead and read it do you want me to go back and do you want me to fill out the

foolscap? Like where what's next steps? I think the next step for you would be the spreadsheet it,

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