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 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.

Now, for those of you that have been around for a while and been listening to all the

episodes of Story Grid, you know whenever I turn in some writing to Sean, it's a little

iffy on what the feedback is going to be. And so I had sent Sean my manuscript and now he's gotten a chance

to read it and we get his feedback and what we're going to do next. So let's jump in and get started.

So Sean, I think a lot of this episode may be in your court because I sent you the manuscript last week right before

we recorded so you hadn't gotten a chance to look at it and then you sent me back kind of your

rework of the first like 3,000 words but overall now that you've well one is how I'm wondering

how much you've read of the manuscript, because it's only

been a week, and then how you feel about it so far. Yeah, I've read the whole thing, and I think it's,

we've got all the materials that we need to create a really great book, I think. What I love about

the material is that it's extremely personal, and it goes to my theory that,

and I'm not the only one who shares this theory, that with specificity comes universality.

And so you're telling your story without, you know, sort of pulling out all of those tools that you initially wanted to just put

string together in a kind of like, almost like a, you know, a spiral binder for people, I think are

going to make the tools land better and stick in somebody's head. You know, it's like when Malcolm

Gladwell talks about stickiness in the

tipping point, that's what he's talking about. Stickiness being a thing that the reader immediately

references when they hear a particular concept. So the way to create stickiness is to set really amazing scenes so that the imagery of the scene

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