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 start off by going over the new draft of the introduction to my book,

but it becomes about something bigger.

It becomes about the craft of nonfiction writing.

And sometimes I kind of have an idea of where

Sean's going with something and you know what he's going to call important and then sometimes

like in this episode he really dives into one specific part that to me isn't the most important

thing but he really points out and shows how it's the most

important thing. And so it's a really good episode. I got a lot out of it, and it's helping me see

what it means to write nonfiction in a whole new way. So we'll go ahead and jump in and get started.

So Sean, last week after we talked, I went off to work on my homework because, you know,

we walked through the conventional, the conventions and obligatory scenes of the nonfiction

big idea book.

And those were really helpful to get me to look at this from lots of different viewpoints.

And as we talked, we kind of came across this idea, this thing I wanted to say about.

We talked about shame.

And then as I was working through it again, I think it was just working through the emotional journey that every writer has to go through.

And so I went back to the tipping point, like you said, and I actually printed out the introduction of tipping point.

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