Hello and welcome to the Storygrid podcast. My name is Tim Graal. I'm your host, and I am a struggling

writer trying to figure out how to tell a story that works. Joining me shortly is Sean Coyne. He's the

creator and founder of Storygrid, and he's an editor and writer with over 30 years of experience.

Along with him is Leslie Watts, the editor-in-chief of StoryGrid Publishing,

and Danielle Kiyoski, the chief academic officer at Storygrid University. In this episode, we

continue the 624 analysis of my short story. So this was really good for me because I picked up

where we left off last week with Leslie and I continued to fill out

the 624 myself looking at all the different ways that I diverge from the masterwork scene

we've been working on eyewitness by Ed McBain. It was really informative for me and in this episode

I got a lot of insights into understanding how that one little thing of not

changing the protagonist affects the entire story. So it was really helpful for me to work through it.

I'm really excited for you to listen to it as well. Now, before we jump in, I want to remind you

that we're hosting the Narrative Path workshop this coming November in Nashville, Tennessee.

So if you're interested in that whole part of the 624 where we look at point of view, narrative device, and pop, this is something that, as you've seen, really, really helps when it comes to planning out your own work and writing your own stories.

We're doing a full workshop on that this coming November.

To learn more about that, go to storygrid.com and click training at the top, and there's more

information there.

Okay, that's it.

Let's go ahead and jump in and get started.

Okay, so let's start with who we are and why we're here.

We've got Tim, who's working on an execution of a masterwork short story, being inspired by

the short story eyewitness by Ed McBain. So Tim is our writer here. And then we have three

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