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 is 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 last week's episode, our 100th episode, we heard from you on how the podcast and what the

podcast is meant to you. And in this one, Sean gives his reaction to that and then shares a little

bit about what he's learned over the last two years as well.

And then we jump right back into the middle build of my novel. So it's a fun episode. I think

you'll get a lot out of it. So let's jump in and get started. So Sean, this is the 101st episode.

And I took the leap that you don't actually listen to the podcast and

put and spent you know a few weeks inviting people to leave us messages put those as a hundredth

episode and so I just wanted to you've listened to that episode just wanted to, you've listened to that episode, just wanted to get

your thoughts. Because it, you know, everybody's heard for me on my thoughts of the 100th episode

and having this for two years. And we've heard from the listeners now. So I just wanted to

hear your reactions and your thoughts after doing this for two years now. Well, I was just stunned

by the comments and I can't thank everybody enough for taking the time to do that because I don't

know if I would do that for a podcast. Just really, really shot in the arm to let me know that, you know, I'm not as crazy as I think I am.

So the big takeaway for me from listening to all of it was that the thing that I've learned over the past two years that I wouldn't have been able to learn without the experience was is this notion of sort of the bedside manner of the editor?

Like, how do you help somebody without overwhelming them?

How do you give them the room necessary to, you know, ask themselves their own questions and not, not to the

point where they just want to quit. And I think I got lucky with you because you're kind of a masochist

and you don't, you don't quit so easy. But I think that's a really important lesson for an editor to learn.

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