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 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,

I keep pushing through my novel to get to the middle of the middle build. It's been a pretty

long slog to get here and I was basically connecting a couple different sections and rewriting a

couple different sections. So Sean and I step into this and start talking through what worked, what didn't work,

and what I need to do next.

So you can listen in as he goes through my scenes.

So let's jump in and get started.

So Sean, last week we talked about kind of my big breakthrough on figuring out what my world was and still feeling

really good about that.

You had emailed me a few days after feeling, same kind of feedback like feeling feeling

like I'm on the right track.

So that was good.

So what I did is I went through and there's the second severing is right in the middle of the

book and that's where she's in the second severing. She's about to get attacked and then her brother

pulls her out and they meet for the first time. And so I went back through my notes on those two scenes and there was some kind of

peripheral notes, but otherwise we were pretty happy with those two scenes. So what I did is I wrote

two scenes to tie together what I'd written before and then those two and then cleaned up a bunch

of stuff.

And the whole explanation of the world, I just left in there for you, even though some of it I will have to pull out because it won't be revealed until the end.

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