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'm 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 Story Grid, the author of the book Story Grid, and an editor with over 25 years experience.

In this episode, I continued

writing down the path that we talked about in last week's episode. And I finally felt like I had a

breakthrough and got to a really good place in the novel. So I sent that to Sean. So he gives

feedback on that. But again, of course, we dive into some of the

underlying things about chaos and order and how to look at these things and especially how to

keep writing even when you feel like, I feel constantly torn between, you know, the planning

and the writing and not knowing where to go next.

So he gave some really helpful feedback for me.

So I think it'll be helpful for you as well.

So let's jump in and get started.

So, Sean, I took what we talked about last week because I sent you the one scene of them moving through.

So, you know, I'm working on the middle build.

We're through the midpoint of the middle build. And now, you know, we're ramping up to the ending

payoff. And so I've been just struggling with the pacing and what to do between, you know,

the main points of the middle build. And I mean, everything we run into

always seems like the hardest, right? So this is like, oh, this is so hard to write this inciting

incident that works. And now figuring out how to pace and keep the middle build interesting

while we build up to the ending payoff has been hard. And so I feel like,

you know, last week I sent you one scene where, you know, they're moving from one place to

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