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 is Sean Coyne. He's the founder and

creator of Storygrid and author of the book The Story Grid. Also, I have Leslie Watts. She's our

editor-in-chief at Story Grid Publishing, and I have

Daniel Kiyoski, who is our chief academic officer over at Story Grid Universe. This week,

we're going over the four story analysis questions. Now, this one went pretty long, so it's going to

end up being a two-parter,

but it's really important because these four questions really help you nail what's happening

in each scene of your story. So Danielle is leading the way this week, so I'm going to kick it

over to her to help us get started. Thanks, Tim. So the reason that I'm leading this week is that we're moving into the green or on the

surface band.

So as we moved through the 624, we moved from blue, where we were talking about the five-leaf

genre clover and the what-if that became the proposition of possibility into the red where we talked

about narrative device and point of view. And now we're moving into green. And so this is about how

to take the concepts that we've talked about in previous weeks and build a bridge from the ideas

that we've talked about to the actual page.

So we're going to be talking in the green level about the ways to get words on the page

and how to actually plan out the events of the scene and make sure that the execution aligns

with the intent that we formed in the other levels.

So that's what we'll be starting with today

with our four scene event synthesis questions. And we're going to move through them one by one.

They're going to build on each other. And eventually we're going to get to the scene event synthesis,

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