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 struggling writer trying to figure out how to tell a story that works.

Joining me shortly is Sean Coyne.

He is a creator of Story Grid, the author of the book Story Grid, and an editor with over 25 years experience.

In this episode, Sean and I start diving back into some of the basic core principles of

Story Grid, and we start with the Five Commandments of Storytelling. I think that's always a

great place to start when we're talking about story grid.

So I get Sean to go back through, talk about these fundamentals, and hopefully help you apply them to your work in progress.

So I think it's a great episode.

It'll really help your understanding of these core principles of story grid.

So let's jump in and get started.

So, Sean, it's been a couple of years since we started the podcast. I've come a long way.

And some of these ideas that we've talked about, we either made complete episodes about, or of course we've talked about

ad nauseum off and on on the show through different episodes. I'm kind of wanting to circle

back around to them now that I feel like I have a better understanding. And I went out to,

I have some of my own questions. I went out to some people in the story grade

community to ask questions. And I want to start with just talking about the five commandments

of storytelling and see if we can drill down into some questions I have and some common questions I think people

have as they try to apply the Five Commandments. Because so many times I feel like this stuff,

because I know this is true for me, which means I'm sure it's true for so many of our listeners

where like, I hear you say it, and I think I got it,

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