Hello, everyone, and welcome to the Storygrid podcast.

So as you may notice, if you're watching the video version, there's twice as many people on this podcast.

For those just listening to the audio, we've added two new people to our group here, and I'm going to talk about why that is in a second. But over the

last year, Sean has been deep in the lab with Danielle Kiyoski and Leslie Watts, working on getting

to the bottom of story. And we're calling this story grid 2.0. And in that time, we've done a lot of work,

and we've gone through a lot of iterations of things. And out of that has come some new tools

and methodologies to help us. And we're going to talk a lot more about that over the coming

week. So I won't get too deep into that. But we're going back to

me being the shock monkey where we work on my writing and leveling me up as a as a writer,

just like we've done in the most through most of the podcast. Just so again, the goal is always that I stand in for the writer,

since I am trying to become a writer,

and to help you follow along and figure out

how to level up your own writing.

And so here with me is of course, Sean Coyne,

the founder and creator of StoryGrid.

Along with that, we have Daniel Kiyoski.

She's the chief academic officer for the Story Grid Guild.

And we have Leslie Watts, the editor-in-chief of Story Grid publishing.

And we're all going to be working here together.

And that's a lot of fun for me because then I have three people critiquing my writing instead of just one.

So, yeah, so that's what it's going to be looking like moving forward.

And, you know, we kind of just, just as we've always done, we kind of have a loose structure and idea of the direction we're going

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