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

I am usually your host, Tim Graal, but this week, Sean Coyne, the creator of Story Grid, the author of

the book Story Grid. He is hosting because he is talking with a special guest, one of our

Story Grid certified editors, helping her work through

her story. So she's going to be replacing me this week on the podcast. Courtney's been having a

lot of trouble wrapping her head around her novel and her series. And so she reached out to

Sean and Sean wanted to have her on the show. So that's what you get to listen to this week. Now,

before we jump in, I want to remind you that as of the publishing of this episode, you have

just two more days to sign up for the summer semester of Level Up Your Craft. I'm really excited

about this course and about what we're going to be doing together this summer.

This is the kind of stuff that Sean is really good at is helping you, helping teach,

as you've heard on this podcast, but also helping you just apply these things in very

systematic ways to your writing and to level up your craft for this summer. So I'm really excited. So you can check

that out as storygrid.com slash summer. Make sure you sign up and join us this summer for

level up your craft. Okay, let's jump in and get started. Courtney, first of all, thank you so

much for being on the podcast, and I really admire your

courage. Not that I'm going to grill you or anything, but it's always difficult to talk about

your stuff. I always feel when I'm writing something, the last thing I want to do is talk about

it with somebody else because it almost seems strange. And if I talk about it too much,

the muse might go away. Even though I know that's not true, it's always a difficult thing to do

this. So first of all, thank you so much for agreeing to do this. And let me just give a little

quick background. I've known Courtney for about a year personally. And let me just give a little quick background. I've known Courtney for about a year,

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