If you had to pick one genre to master, what should it be? Shawn answers the question in this week's episode.

Tim finally nails his scene. What changed? And what is the right process for going from draft to a working scene?

Shawn and Tim answer a few questions from listeners and then dive into more rewrites of Tim's scenes. Check storygrid.com/podcast for a download of Tim's scene.

How do you take scenes that don't work and rewrite them? Shawn and Tim walk through best practices and common pitfalls.

Shawn continues working through the Story Grid for Tim's beginning hook.

Tim has finished the first 11 scenes of his book -- the Beginning Hook -- and Shawn wades into his critique on where he did well and where he... didn't.

The 4 categories of non-fiction and how the Story Grid applies to them.

This week we talk with PhD candidate Andy Reagan who is one of the researchers behind the Hendonometer Shawn and Tim discussed a couple weeks ago. Andy shares where they are at with the research and they discuss the implications for writers in the future.

What does it take to move from amateur to professional as a writer? Tim and Shawn discuss this in depth and share their experience.

New research shows there are only 6 stories that every book is based on. Shawn and Tim discuss the implications of this and how it applies to Tim's story.