Hello and welcome to the Storygrid 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 a creator of StoryGrid, the author of the book StoryGrid,

and an editor with over 25 years experience.

In this episode, we hit on something that really coalesced for me in my mind what I'm trying

to do when I'm creating the world and how that affects my characters.

And this is one of those things where part of me feels a little embarrassed that I

didn't already kind of put all this together. And then part of me hopes that it's something that

will be helpful to you as well. So anyway, it's a really good conversation. And again, for me,

the way that Sean talked about it, it really helped me understand what I'm doing when I'm creating the world and how that

affects everything in my story. So it's a really good episode. Hope you enjoy it. And let's jump in and

get started. So Sean, last week, it was really helpful. I've been, even as I've been continuing

to work on the threshing of like already starting to put my characters in this like chaos verse order, tyranny, you know, verse freedom kind of thing has been super helpful.

So that's been fun.

And it's, you know, it's got me thinking, which is what I wanted was, you know, it's got me thinking about the character.

Like when I go back and work on the third draft of this of, you know, how am I going to ground these characters?

You know, because a few weeks ago, I was really stuck on the emotional valiance thing.

And I think this is actually more of the

answer of like, because my feeling was my characters were these constantly shifting cardboard

cutouts. And so having more of a grounding of what they are in this kind of realm will help me make them more believable, which I think

that's what I call the episode, creating believable characters or something like that. So,

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