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

So what you're listening to right now is the 159th episode of the Storygrid podcast.

We've been recording for three and a half years.

And over that time, our listenership keeps growing and growing.

In fact, last month was our biggest month ever for downloads, which was pretty cool. And so I was looking at our stats this week,

and I realized that this episode that you're listening to right now, the downloads that we'll get

from this episode will put us over 2 million downloads of this

podcast altogether, which just seems crazy to me. You know, when we started three and a half years

ago, Sean and I committed to 10 episodes and figured that would be it. And so I'm looking at

this that, you know, this is kind of a normal episode.

It's the second part of the editor's six core questions.

There's not a lot special about it.

But looking at the fact that we'll have two million downloads of this podcast just is crazy to me.

And I really can't thank you enough. You guys listening to this,

knowing you're out there, getting your emails, getting your tweets, getting, seeing your reviews

on Apple Podcasts, all that kind of stuff is just really meaningful. Because for me, this has been

so amazing because of all of the learning I've gotten to do and

sitting under Sean's tutelage. And the only reason he's doing this is because we have the podcast

and it's growing this other thing, right? So you listening to this gives me this opportunity.

So I just want to thank you for that as we get

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