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 Story Grid, the author of the book Story Grid,

and an editor with over 25 years experience.

Now, as you may be able to hear, I'm fighting a little bit of a cold.

Thankfully, this came on after the recording of the episode, so you won't have to listen

to this for the next hour.

But in this episode, we talk about, we're continuing into the middle build of my book. And,

you know, I'm still struggling with these big moments. As if you've been following along,

you know, as I come against these big moments in the middle build, I really kind of freak out

and can't figure out what I should write about and feel like I have no good ideas.

And so we talk some more about that and what I have left to do in the middle build.

And I think you'll really enjoy it because it will help you as you think about your big moments and your middle build and how to keep the momentum going and hit the right notes at the right time. So let's jump in and get

started. So Sean, I worked on the next sequence, which ended up being four scenes. And I was,

after admitting to you that I kept waiting until two days before I had to turn in the scenes to write anything,

I decided I was not going to do that this time, and I actually wrote five out of the seven days

between episodes, and actually just tried to chip away at it instead of just sitting down and

like writing 2,500 words at once.

Anyway, I don't know if it made it any better or worse, but that's what I tried to do just to,

you know, build consistency instead of these days and tons of writing and then I don't write

for five days.

But anyway, so four scenes we got through, in the last one, we got through kind of the aftermath

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