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 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 back into the Story Grid spreadsheet.

So there's lots of different story grid tools.

We've gone over all of them in varying degrees.

But the one probably most used and also most confused is the spreadsheet. And so we spend this episode walking through

the different aspects of the Story Grid spreadsheet and why, you know, why Sean chose to have

the different columns in there and what should go in each one and how to make those decisions.

So if you've ever used the Story Grid spreadsheet or ever

planned to, this is definitely an episode for you. So let's jump in and get started.

So Sean, over the past few weeks, we've been going back through some of the basic tools

and tenants of Story Grid and taking another look at them because it's been for some of these

two years since we really look deep at some of these. So we went through the Five Commandments

of storytelling. We spent a couple weeks on the six core, six editor, six core editor questions,

something like that. Yeah. And I actually went back through

those and worked through some of those on my novel as well, which was really helpful because I'm

so deep into it. When you were talking about coming up out of the trees and taking it look,

I'm like, oh, man, I need a little bit of that. So this week I want to talk about

the spreadsheet because I feel like it's probably the most intensive story grid tool that I've used

so far as far as just the just straight amount of time it takes. Also, it's, it can be a little confusing of like what to put in

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