Hello, Merry Christmas. Happy holidays. Welcome to the Story Grid podcast. My name is Tim Graal. I'm your host and I am a struggling fiction writer trying to figure out how to write a story that works.

Sean Coyne's going to join me soon and he is the creator of the Story Grid, the author of the book The Story Grid, and he has 25 plus years

experience as an editor, and he's answering all of my inane questions on writing. This is a special

episode. It's based on a survey we did to all of the Story Grid email list subscribers, asking

them what story they would like us to run through the story grid and by

far the Martian won the survey. So we are taking this episode to run the Martian through the story

grid. Also as part of this Christmas episode, we are running a Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens through the story grid as well.

So this is an epic long episode, an hour and a half, but I think you'll really enjoy it, and it will

help you understand better than ever how you can use the story grid method.

So we go through the entire Foolscap story grid for each of the stories.

So we're going to dive right into this epic episode.

See you on the other side.

So, Sean, I've been really looking forward to doing this episode because we're breaking out of our normal mode.

This is our, you know, Christmas holiday episode.

And for that, we're going to go over the Martian and the Christmas Carol and story grid them and talk through it.

And I've been really looking forward to doing this because I know this is what a lot of people want to hear.

And it was good for me to go back through it too.

Yeah. Yeah.

Yeah.

This is always a fun time because it's, the great thing about story gritting is that you can,

and as soon as we get into it, we'll see, like different people have different interpretations.

And, you know, it doesn't mean that because I say one thing and you say something else that

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