Hello and welcome to the Storygrid podcast. This is a show dedicated to helping you become a better

writer. I'm your host Tim Grawl 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 StoryGrid, the author of

the book Story Grid and an editor with over 25 years experience.

In this episode, I finally start making some real progress on my second draft of the middle build.

So I finished up four scenes in the middle build that we talked about on last week's episode,

and I got some direction on.

Sent those over to Sean about 6,600 words.

I was just so thrilled to actually get that many words out, that many scenes out in a way

that I felt like they worked.

But of course, I was nervous to hear what Sean thought of them.

So you'll hear his feedback and some other thoughts we have on where

to get inspiration from, how to think about the limitations of your book as positives instead of

negatives and some other really fun things that I think you'll enjoy. So let's jump in and get

started. So Sean, after we talked last week, I felt more energized about what to do next in the book

and actually start making progress on the middle build than I have in a really long time.

And, you know, there's always this weird pressure because I feel like all the other writers can like not work on

their book for two months and just nobody notices but like I have to actually but I did

spend I read reread Hunger Games over the weekend and I'm going to work on spreadsheeting

that and then I started rereading Ender's game.

And we'll eventually spreadsheet that one as well. Because just with how much clarity I got

from spending those six or eight hours, spreadsheeting die hard, I mean, I felt like it just

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