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 as Sean Coyne, he is the creator of Story Grid, the author of the book Story Grid, and an editor with over 25 years experience. In this episode,

we continue into my middle build, but we kind of have to stop and take a step back as we so

often do on this show and have me stop writing scenes and actually plan out what my world

looks like and do the actual world building part so I can know

what these scenes, where these scenes are actually living. So it's a really good episode that

dives into an important topic that we're all going to need for our novels, which is planning out

the world that our characters are living in. So I think you'll really enjoy it. Let's jump and get

started. So Sean, I went back and

reworked the one scene based on some, you know, what we talked about last week, and then wrote

two more and sent them over to you. And overall, I'm not thrilled with what I sent you. I felt like

every time I tried to wrap my head around what this is

supposed to be, I just couldn't really see much. So I'm interested to hear your feedback. So I sent

you the three scenes and I'll post those in the show notes. But basically it was a rewrite of the scene I did last week that,

you know, had some of the things we talked about. And then a scene where she kind of had a conversation

with the guy in charge and then a scene where she was back in training again.

Anyway, what are your thoughts?

Yeah, I think you kind of hit a bit of a wall here.

And it's not anything that you can't overcome.

But I was just trying to think before we got on the phone what the best advice is here.

So before we get into the scene-by-scene discussion, I was thinking about, well, how should

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