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 writer in the Storygrid universe. 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 30 years experience. In this episode, we dive into quadrant four of the heroic journey

2.0. So we made a big error several months ago when we just kind of stopped recording for

several months where we were talking about the heroic journey. And we talked about quadrant one,

quadrant two, and quadrant three. and then we never got to quadrant

four. And so we correct that error in this episode. So we talk a little bit about the

heroic journey 2.0 overall, how that interacts and how it's different from the Storygrid

Trinity. And then we go through quadrant four of of the Heroic Journey 2.0.

So if you're one of the several people that have emailed us about the fact that we left you all hanging,

I'm so sorry about that.

We are correcting that air in this episode.

Also, I just want to mention that our newest book at StoryGrid Publishing is out.

I actually came out yesterday.

It's the Story Grid Microscope. It's by StoryG Publishing is out. I actually came out yesterday. It's the Story Grid

Microscope. It's by Story Grid Certified Editor Kimberly Kessler. And it's all about how to use

the Story Grid spreadsheet to analyze your novel or a masterwork. If you've ever tried to use

the spreadsheet and struggled with how to actually fill out all of those columns, this is the book for you.

So you can go to storygrid.com slash books and you can pick up your copy of the story microscope.

Okay. So let's jump in to this episode and talk about quadrant four of the heroic journey 2.0.

So, Sean, back in December, we were working through the heroic journey 2.0 and then we just

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