Hello and welcome to the Storygrid podcast. This is a show dedicated to helping you level up your craft as a writer.

My name is Tim Graal and I'm a writer in the behind the scenes guy here at Storygrid.

This podcast episode is hosted by Storygrid certified editor, Kimberly Kessler, alongside Sean Coyne, the founder of Storygridrid, and an editor with over 30 years of experience.

In this episode, Kim and Sean discuss objects of desire and how they fit into your writing.

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Okay, that's all on the announcements.

So let me turn it over to Kim and Sean.

Hi, Sean. Hi, Kim. How you doing? I'm doing great. How about you? You all right?

Yeah, really good. Really good. And I'm super excited to talk to you today about my current obsession,

which is, I don't know, something I think I've overlooked for a while.

And now I've sort of, I don't know, keyed in on it as something that I'm like, oh, I think

this is really, really important. And I shouldn't be surprised because it is one of our

editor six core questions. But the thing I want to ask you about today is the character wants

and needs or the objects of desire. So that's what we're going to be

poking your brain at with today. So I think probably to start, I have a bunch of questions

and insights that I have that I kind of want to like bounce past to you and double check and like,

you know, see where it goes. But I guess if you could just start us off and remind us all, like, why the heck is, you know,

objects of desire or wants and needs, you know, one of our editor, six core questions.

And what does it actually mean?

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