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's the creator of StoryGrid, the author of the

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

In this episode, we continue talking about the scenes in my beginning hook.

So we went through four or five scenes last week, and we're diving into the rest of them this

week.

And again, getting in the weeds, talking about specific scenes, how they turn, the value

shift, all of those things that make

the story better. So once again, there's some highs and there's some lows, but I hope that you

learn alongside me as I'm trying to figure out how to make these scenes actually string together

into something readable. So let's jump in and get started.

So last week, we started talking through some of these scenes. I sent you, I think, 11 scenes.

And we got through the first four of just talking through that plus some other things.

And, you know, I've been thinking about it obviously

this last week and just you know i it's that whole difference of like reading the theory and then

seeing and practice and how as soon as you started running my scenes through the spreadsheet it

immediately showed all these problems.

So like the scene I should have thrown away, I felt that I should throw it away, but it was

more of just a feeling and not like a, you know, a good reason. And you're like, well, you know,

it doesn't have a value shift and there's no way that it turns.

And like it like automatically.

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