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

and an editor with over 25 years experience.

In this episode, we continue diving into the fundamentals of Story Grid and looking in the toolbox,

and we look at the math of storytelling.

So one of the ways that Sean likes to change his perspective on looking into story is to move from this kind of subjective place to a much more objective place.

So we can get an objective kind of concrete look on what we're trying to do when we're writing a book.

And so it was one of the chapters when I first read Storygrid that really stood out to me.

And so it was fun to dive back into this concept of the math of storytelling. So it's a great

episode. I think you'll enjoy it. Let's jump in and get started. So Sean, a couple weeks ago,

we finished going through the six core editor questions, which

it's one of those, the more I come back to it, the more, you know, these things just have

so many layers to them.

I feel like every time I go back through it, it's like, oh man, I see something new that

I didn't see before.

But now I want to get into what I think we've talked about is like everybody's, they ask about it the most, which is the math.

Yeah.

And so just talk a little bit because I still remember when I first read the book and saw the chapter heading of the math,

and I'm like, what does math have to do with storytelling?

And so just talk a little bit about how math applies in story grid.

Sure.

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