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 book, I actually wrote the last scenes of the manuscript.

So I rewrote a few scenes, added on a few scenes, and just got to the end and actually got to write the end on the end of these scenes. So I sent those eight to

Sean. Of course, I was pretty nervous to see what he had to think about him. So I'm just going to

stop here and jump into the episode so that you can hear his thoughts on the final few scenes

of the book. So hope it's a fun one for you. I'm looking forward to moving

into the editing stage. I think that's going to be really helpful for you guys. But anyway,

let's get through this episode first. I'm going to stop and jump in and get started.

So Sean, I sent you eight scenes. So we've been working towards this for a while all the way through the book. We're

now at the very end of the book. And, you know, last week you said I was putting off the ending of the

book because I wrote four scenes and then I wrote four more scenes and then I still wasn't

really tore at the end of the

book and so you gave me you said to finish the book and or get to the get through the

confrontation with the villain in five or six scenes so of course I took all six and then I

just went ahead and wrote the last two

scenes of the book just to get to an end, even if I, you know, got to go back and rewrite it.

So I sent you all eight scenes. Some of them, what I found is when I went back and started

reworking the scenes, I just reworked some of the scenes I'd already written.

I took elements that I had been dragging out in other scenes and just added them into early scenes so that I can combine them together.

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