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 as Sean Coyne, he is the creator of Story Grid, the author of the book Story Grid,

and an editor with over 25 years experience. In this episode,

we continue talking about my nonfiction book, running down a dream. We figured out the theme.

I've got the introduction written, and now I'm trying to actually weave that theme through the

rest of the book, and, well, you'll see what Sean has to say about my first try.

So we're going to talk through that and hopefully get me to a place where I can start fast

tracking, finishing up this book. So let's jump in and get started. So Sean, now that we have,

I feel like the introduction set as far as the theme of the book, where I'm starting,

the story I'm telling. So I started working on weaving that through the first section of the

book. So the whole book's probably going to be about 40,000 words, maybe a little more. So,

and it's split up into kind of three larger sections,

the middle build is. And so I went through that whole first section and tried to rewrite it

with the new theme, which, you know, I put it all. So I sent you like 10,500 words, which was like, I think about

six chapters or something. And I like, it feels like the more I read it, the more it just

becomes noise in my head because I have all of these old versions of the book that are like

ringing in my head. So anyway, I went

through, I wrote, you know, you encouraged me to write like an introduction and conclusion kind of to

each section. So I did that, tried to work it through the middle. And you know, we've been talking

about, we're hoping to publish

this in the next few months. And we're talking about, you know, there's all these little

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