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 the creator of StoryGrid, the author of the book StoryGrid,

and an editor with over 25 years experience. In this episode, Sean and I continue talking

through some of the fundamentals of story grid, looking at the book, looking at the ideas in them,

and kind of hitting them again. And this week we start going over the editor's six core questions.

These are six questions that you should be able to answer about your manuscript and definitely

help you start getting ready when you are writing your manuscript and planning it out. So it's a really

great review and it's always fun for me to go back through these, especially as I've now been

learning about StoryGrid for three and a half, four four years it's really fun to go back to these

fundamentals and hear them fresh from sean so i think you'll enjoy it so let's jump in and get

started so sean last week we went over a lot on genre and why that was the first thing that you talk about in the story grid book. And so, again,

we talked a lot about genre. We went over some of the five leaf clover stuff. We spent most of the

time talking about content genre and the fact that genre is the first decision you make because

it gives you the direction on everything. Again,

I feel like it's like if you're standing in the middle of America, I don't know, Wisconsin or something,

and you got to decide am I going to California and am I going to New York because, you know,

you got to make that decision first before

you know even what direction to go. Then the next thing you start getting into is the full scap,

the editor's six core questions. Like now that you have your genre pick, so you've gone,

you know, you have an idea of the story you're trying to tell.

You look at the genres.

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