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. So let's go to the fourth question.

What story event sums up the scene's global value change?

So this is going to be our scene event synthesis,

and it's going to wrap up into a tidy package, hopefully,

the other answers to the three questions

so that we can get a summary or synthesis of what's going on

in the scene as a whole. So, Tim, what do you have for this one? Well, I now feel pretty confident that

what I have is wrong based on our discussion up until this point. That's right. We can workshop it.

Okay. So what I originally put was Mr. Struthers witnessed a murder and wants to tell the police what he saw but changes his mind when he realizes the lieutenant of the precinct is the murderer.

Okay.

So what I'm hearing there is that it's very on the surface.

So you're going through the green progression of the scene from beginning to end.

And so the key thing to do is to incorporate all three levels.

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