Hello and welcome back to the Story Grid podcast. Now, last week, we started the process of working

through the 624 framework that we have here at Story Grid, looking at a particular short story.

And we're going to continue that. So last week we talked about the five

genre leaf clover. And this week we're going to dive into the what if scenario. And back again with me

are Sean Coyne, the founder of StoryGrid, Leslie Watts, the editor-in-chief of StoryGrid Publishing,

and Danielle Kiyoski, the chief academic officer for StoryGrid University.

And then I'm here, of course, Tim Graal.

I'm the publisher at StoryGrid, but also when we're on this podcast, I'm just a writer

trying to figure out how to tell a story that works.

So, Sean, I'm going to let you jump in and start talking us through the what-if scenario.

Great.

Okay.

So before I get into what if, I just want to go back to our core principles here, our top-down levels of analysis.

So we have three dimensionalities, three fields,

three planes of space that we talk about in story. We have what we call the beyond the surface

realm, which is what we designate as blue, and that's kind of my specialty. And then we have the

above the surface realm, which is

sort of, we call that the red zone, and that's Leslie's specialty. And then we have on the surface

green, which is the literal movement of the story on the page, and that's Danielle's specialty.

So we've got the blue, the red, and the green,

and I'm going to finish up on the blue side for our six categories.

So each of those dimensions have two categories of story grid tools that we use to enable us to get very high resolution

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