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, 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,

Sean is getting close to the end of going through and editing my manuscript. And we have some

very particular things to talk about around how we're going to do the appendix, how we're weaving

things into the story, what the narrative drive of the story is and just figuring these

things out as we get to the point where I get to do one or two more passes of the book and then

it's done. So it's a good episode. It's been helpful for me to continue to have these conversations

and hopefully I'm hoping through this because this is the first time I've

worked with an editor like this through a book and I hope as you're listening that you start

to get a sense for what an editor should do with you. They're not there to fix your sentences

or to you know make sure the chapter headings are right.

Like, they're there to help you figure out your story and to figure out your book.

So I hope that this is raising the bar of what you're expecting from your editor as you listen to this.

So anyway, I'll stop talking so we can jump into the episode and get started.

So, Sean, I have to say that the last couple weeks have been glorious because I have not been the one with homework.

It's the first time in two and a half years of doing this podcast that I get off the podcast and I'm done and you have work to do, which is kind of nice.

So we've been, I've been on my end, well, one, kind of catching up on projects that were lagging

because I was working on the book.

And then I've also been setting some groundwork for the marketing and the launch of the book,

starting to reach out for blurbs,

you know, beginning, putting together a book website, we've got the cover done, and just trying to

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