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 is Sean Coyne. He is the creator of StoryGrid, the author of the the book Story Grid, and an editor with over 25

years experience. In this episode, we start actually figuring out what the middle build is going to be.

I've been doing a lot of thinking on this, researching how middle builds are built,

going over the hero's journey again, and actually started putting

together some scenes and sequences to build out what this is going to be. And so Sean and I dive

into that and we go over it in detail. And I think it's going to be really helpful for you because

the middle build is often, I mean, it's the longest part of the book.

It's hard to figure out exactly, you know, how to build it in a way that's not too fast or not

too slow that introduces the right characters and the right timing.

So, you know, we all are going to have to deal with our own middle build.

So I think it's going to be something you really enjoy.

So let's jump in and get

started. So Sean, I've been working on the scene list since the last week. And just for putting

together what was probably 500 words that I actually sent you, probably not even that much,

it's just trying to figure out how these

things should stack up has been really hard. So I sent it to you and I'll put in the show notes.

But a couple things. One is I have these really kind of every sequence is three scenes, which seems

a little too normal. And then on a different note,

or kind of similar, I guess, I cannot decide what the digital world should look like.

So when they plug in and they're going through these different, because you sent me an email this

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