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 writer and publisher at Storygrid.

Joining me shortly as Sean Coyne. He is the creator of Storygrid, the author of the book Storygrid,

and an editor with over 25 years experience. In this episode, we keep diving into the Story Grid Trinity.

So this week, we're going to talk about the third level, which is beyond the surface.

And I just want to remind you that we are hosting a Storygrid Trinity seminar here in Nashville, Tennessee,

and streaming online as well.

You can see all of the information about that as storygrid.com slash Trinity.

Also, Sean has put together just a short video walking you through everything that he's going

to teach at the seminar and where this idea came from and the basis of it and why it's so important.

It's a really cool little video, so you can see that at storygrid.com slash trinity as well. Okay, let's jump into this

final episode of the Storygrid Trinity series on the podcast where we talk about beyond the surface.

So I'm excited for you to listen in. So let's jump in and get

started. So, Sean, the last few weeks, we've been looking at this story grid Trinity

and looking at the three different pieces of it, on the surface, above the surface, and beyond the

surface. And I feel like they get, well, you've talked about how you have to have on the surface, above the surface, and beyond the surface. And I feel like they get, well, you've talked

about how you have to have on the surface. And then once you have on the surface, you look at above

the surface. And then now once you have above the surface, we're looking at beyond the surface.

But I also feel like they get a little bit more hard to wrap your head around at each level, right?

So on the surface is pretty straightforward.

It's what's happening.

What are the characters literally doing?

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