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 the creator of Story Grid, the author of the book Story Grid,

and an editor with over 25 years experience.

In this episode, we dive into the hero's journey. So there's all these different tools that we're

applying to the first draft to get it ready for the second draft. We've gone through the

spreadsheet and full scab, and I talk a little bit about that

in this episode. And then this one, we dive into the different archetypes of the hero's journey.

So I think this is one, you know, we've all heard of the hero's journey. And if you look it up

online, there's lots of different takes on it. And so we're going through it step by step

through the archetypes. And I learned a ton in this one. And I think you will, too, as a way to take

the hero's journey and look at your story and see if you're hitting the right marks. So let's jump in and get

started. So, Sean, we're in the middle of this transition of I have a working first draft

and we're trying to do the work so that I can write a second draft, which just like every

part of the last two years is way different than I assumed it would be.

You know, the first thing I thought was I was like, okay, I got to go in and fix, you know, the continuancy problems.

And so up till now, the first thing you had me do was go through each scene and fill out the first, I think it was like half dozen

columns of the Story Grid spreadsheet. And at the same time, generate a brainstorm slash

to-do list, right? So problems that need fixing and ideas, like bigger ideas of how to make the book better.

So I did that for all the scenes, came up with about 160 to do items.

And that was the micro view of looking at each individual scene.

Right.

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