Middles are hard, y’all.
For many, many years and many, many stories, I really struggled to know WHAT went in the middle of a story. Like, yeah, okay, it’s supposed to exacerbate the conflict. It’s supposed to complicate things. It’s supposed to get the protag. to the climax and there should be a reversal in the middle. I know.
I know. I KNOW.
Did this help navigate the middle any more than a completely blank page?
Well, marginally. But it wasn’t until I watched this lecture by Mary Robinette Kowal *last year* that it finally, actually clicked.
(I know. Last year. Think of all those books and stories I’d written without really knowing what I was doing :’D Which, IF I CAN, YOU CAN TOO!! BWA HA HA.)
So. I think I’ve posted this before, but someone asked me about story structure and planning, and since I relied really heavily on this method for the novel I’m “currently”* working on, I thought it was worth a repost 🙂
* “currently” as in, I plotted and outlined and planned the book over the weekend and now I’m waiting for my Urgent February Deadlines to be done so I can start on it, or else my brain to suddenly develop more energy so I can do more than one thing per evening. Either or. Ha. O:)