Hello and welcome to the Storygrid podcast. This is the show dedicated to helping you become a better writer.

I'm your host Tim Graal and I am in the middle of writing my very first novel. And I am hitting up Sean

coin with all of my questions about how to do it right. Sean is a creator of Story Grid.

He's the author of the book Story Grid, and he's an editor with 25 plus years experience,

and he's showing me all the tricks to the trade of how I can write a story that works.

In this episode, we cover a whole lot of ground.

We start by talking about beginning hooks and how you can

think about them in a new way. We also talk about the high concept pitch and how to pitch your

novel and we dive into how to get feedback from other writers and a few other things as well. So it's a

big episode. We cover a lot of ground. I know you're really going to love it.

So let's jump in and get started. So, Sean, I have to start out by saying I am now 20,000 words

into my manuscript. Nice. So I've been feeling good. I had a day, two days ago ago where I knocked out 2,700 words in like one setting.

So, you know, I have those days where like I hit the wall, it 8,000 words and I can't do anything else.

And then it just like falls out of me the next day.

But I even found myself at one point like giggling, literally giggling in a coffee

shop while I was writing a part that I thought was kind of funny. So definitely having fun with it.

Yeah, that's great. So I've been talking with a couple friends of mine. We're all kind of struggling writers.

And apparently they decided I know what I'm talking about since I talk to you all the time.

And so we were talking about the beginning hook.

So a friend of mine was asking me a question about his beginning hook.

And what popped in my head, I wanted to run this by you is as I started thinking

through the Martian Harry Potter the Stephen King book I'm reading 1122 63 my own book I'm realizing

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