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, I continue working through my second draft.

And it's going okay, but I keep getting stuck on when I should be reworking scenes,

when I should be using old scenes or rewriting them,

when I should stop and rework or keep working

forward. And I know this is something a lot of writers face is like when should they keep

writing forward and when should they rework what they've already written. So it's a great episode.

Sean has some great answers. I think you're really going to enjoy it.

So let's jump in and get started.

So Sean, I've been working on the next sequence.

So I wrote another three scenes.

And it's been interesting as I'm working on the second draft because there's times where I completely rewrite and then there's times where they like copy and paste what I wrote in the first

draft into the second draft and like weave it into the new stuff I wrote for it.

And so I'm going to just kind of tell you where I'm at with it.

So the first part is like each of the three scenes are roughly 1,100 words.

And I know like you always tell me not to worry too much about word count, but what I'm

realizing is I'm still rushing everything.

And so I started reading The Cuckoo's Calling. It's the book that J.K. Rowling wrote under

a pen name. It's one of the books she wrote under a pen name. It's a mystery. Yes. And it was funny

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