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 the creator of Story Grid, the author of the book Story Grid,

and an editor with over 25 years experience.

In this episode, I get pretty up in my head about this whole world building thing with my current manuscript

and holes I'm finding and issues I'm running into.

And Sean helps me kind of talk through how to use this and

how to get through this problem especially using this Heroes Journey 2.0 framework that he has

developed so it was a really useful episode for me helped me calm down and know what to do next so

hopefully you'll enjoy it too.

So let's jump in and get started.

So Sean, I am probably about a week away from finishing up the first draft of my novel, which is cool. I'm on like, I don't know, like 105 days in a row of writing,

which is probably, it's got to be the longest I've ever written consistently. So that's cool.

But towards the end, I've like, so as I've written, anytime there's something I've got to like go back and fix, or something I realize like, okay, I got to put this in earlier or like I don't have a name for this thing or these people yet. So I've just put put in brackets like there's lots of like bracket

whatever I'm calling them or whoever they are and and then but the further I've gotten into

it it's like I get more and more brackets. And so I'm pretty close to ending it.

But I'm starting to feel like I need to go back and actually fix a bunch of things before I submit it to you.

But we had kind of talked about that and you're like, it might be worth you taking a look

before I go back to fix anything. And I always feel like I always get stuck in these places where

like, I don't want to go back and fix a bunch of shit you're going to read and be like, yeah,

we need to get rid of all of that, you know. So I'm kind of struggling with like, do you, like, when should I send it over to you to look at the story and like the story's good?

Now go clean this up or like, oh, we got to fix this part.

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