Hello and welcome to the Storygrid podcast. My name is Tim Graal. I'm the CEO of Storygrid Universe,

and I'm a struggling writer trying to figure out how to tell a story that works. Joining me shortly

is Sean Coyne. He's the creator and founder of Storygrid and an editor and storyteller with over

30 years of experience. Along with him is Leslie Watts, the editor-in-chief of Storygrid Publishing,

and Danielle Kiyoski, the chief academic officer of Storygrid University.

So in this episode, you get a special treat.

Sean rewrote my scene, so he was trying to teach me,

really get me to help see the narrative device, and so he rewrote my scene. So he was trying to teach me really get me to help see the narrative device.

And so he rewrote my scene. And so he shares his changes and why he made the changes. And then you get to hear Leslie and Danielle give him feedback on his writing.

So this alone was a joy for me to not be in the hot seat as much all by myself

and to actually have Sean be in that hot seat. But then as we got through that, it brought up

these other things for me. So Sean at a point in this episode asked me like how I'm feeling

and I had all kinds of emotions around this and not in a bad

way just like feeling lots of different things and one of the things that came out was this constant

feeling that I'm like watching myself right you know instead of just writing it's almost like

I remove I'm one removed from the writing and I'm looking down on me writing and I'm

trying to make sure I'm doing it right. And we talk a little bit about why that is the reasons

it's good, the reasons it's not helpful. And then we go into some other things around this

process that have been really helpful for me that I have

kind of forgotten along the way. And so it's a really great episode, a lot of cool stuff in it,

and I think some stuff that will definitely help you understand your own writing journey as

well. So we're going to go ahead and jump in and get started.

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