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 is 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 start talking about what it takes to restart an old project.

If you've been following along, you know I've been finishing up my nonfiction book

running down a dream, but now that that's done and heading off to the copy editor, I actually have to

go back and restart my old project, have to get back into the threshing. And I'm only about

halfway through the second draft. And just I'm having trouble wanting to step in, nowhere to start,

and nowhere to get going with it again. So I start

off there with Sean and then we talk about a lot of different things and then we end with talking

about something really exciting we're working on here at Storygrid. So I think you'll enjoy this

episode. So let's jump in and get started. So Sean locked down the book, running down a dream, manuscripts locked,

finished the appendix, finished the acknowledgments yesterday. So that's like the writing part of

that's pretty much done. That's going to the copy editor and you said once that happens, I'm not allowed

to make changes, which is wonderful said once that happens, I'm not allowed to make changes,

which is wonderful to have somebody say that I'm not allowed to make any more changes.

So now I'm staring down, entering back into working on the novel.

I haven't touched it in several months as I've tried to finish up the nonfiction

book, which by the way, the next time I decide I want to write two books at the same time,

I would really appreciate if you could talk me out of that. So anyway, so diving back into the

novel. And so I'm sure that I am not alone and people that have like started a book, stopped

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