First off, I just have to tell you how awesome you are.

So a couple episodes ago, I asked you to go and leave reviews to put us over the 50 mark on the ratings and reviews inside of iTunes.

And not only did we hit 50, but as of this recording, we're at 61.

So just thank you so much for your support of the show,

and thank you for sharing it as well. Each week are downloads and listens, keep going up,

they keep going up. And it's really fun to see, and we're not doing any advertising or

promotion for it. So what that means is you're sharing the word, you're spreading the

word to other authors. So thank you so much for doing that. Now, welcome to the Storygrid podcast.

My name is Tim Graal. I'm your host. I'm a struggling fiction writer trying to figure out how to

write a story that works. Sean Coyne is the creator of the story grid.

He wrote the book, The Story Grid, and he's been an editor for over 25 years, and he's

worked on many bestselling books, hundreds of authors, and he is sharing his advice with me

as a struggling writer, and hopefully it's something that will be helpful to you as well.

In this episode, we talk about the Kubler-Ross curve and how that applies to writing.

We also talk about character development and what it means, how we put ourselves into our

characters, and why that's an important part of the process.

I also want to let you know that next week is our Christmas episode, and Sean and I are doing

something really cool as a gift to you that we think you'll love. We're taking the movie The

Martian, and we're running it through the story grid. We're going to talk through the entire

foolscap method, and we're going to talk

about obligatory scenes and genre and beginning hook, and we're just going to break down the entire

book and walk through that, and I think it'll be something you love. So hang on for that. And then we're

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