Hello and welcome to the Storygrid podcast. This is a show dedicated to helping you level up your craft as a writer.

My name is Tim Graal and I'm a writer in the behind the scenes guy here at Storygrid.

This podcast episode is hosted by StoryGrid certified editor Kimberly Kessler, alongside Sean Coyne, the founder of StoryGrid, and an editor with over 30

years of experience. In this episode, Kim and Sean go back to the beginning and discuss the

origins of the Story Grid universe. Before we jump in, I want to recommend you pick up a copy

of our book, Point of View, Why Narrative, Perspective can make or

break your story by Story Grid Publishing, editor-in-chief Leslie Watts. Finding the right point

of view is one of the most important and least understood challenges writers face. It goes so much

deeper than the choice of first, second, or third person. In this book, Leslie Watts offers

a revolutionary approach to point of view, demonstrating how deep study of narrative perspectives

can empower and uplift storytellers themselves. When writers truly master point of view, they can

share the messages they want to share and bring their stories to life. You can get 20% off point of

view and all of our books at storygrid.com slash books with the coupon code podcast. Okay,

that's all. Let me turn it over to Kim and Sean. Hi, Kim. How are you doing?

I'm doing great.

Great.

So I'm really excited to talk to you today.

And I've been thinking I've gotten a little nostalgic is maybe the word.

So my husband and I, we just did that ancestry, you know, spit in the thing, send your DNA in, whatever.

And we got our results back.

And it was really interesting to see where you're from in the world.

And I'm 38% Scottish, apparently.

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