Rescue Your Sagging Middle: A Compact Craft Guide for Writers
Does your novel start to fizzle out around page 100? Do your beta-readers say they feel like the book is losing steam? Or worse: have you abandoned manuscript after manuscript because the middle keeps falling apart?
This writing resource is definitely for you.
This compact writing guide is born from my own years of wrestling with the most notoriously difficult part of a book: the dreaded middle. Don't let the size fool you; it's full of techniques that reflect the way I now draft (or revive) a book's middle.
Here, you'll find:
- Common Causes of Middle Sag (and how to fix each one)
- How to turn your midpoint into a second inciting event that reframes your entire story
- The difference between plot advancement and plot deepening
- Why adding new characters and subplots often makes the sag worse (and what to do instead)
- Scene-by-scene diagnostic questions to identify exactly where your middle goes off track
- A step-by-step rescue guide for fixing your current sagging middle
- Prevention strategies so you never face this problem again
And the best part? You aren't having to sift through a giant 200-page craft book to get what you need. These are actionable steps you can digest and start to implement today in your current manuscript.
You do not need to draft this middle 80 different times. You do not need to suffer silently or hate the sight of your workspace. You can do this. You can create a compelling middle that will completely transform your book.
A weak middle makes readers say, "Started interesting but lost me." A strong middle makes readers insist their friends read it, offering, "I'd loan you my copy, but I'm reading it again."
We all know we want the latter. Most importantly, we want to have fun getting there. This will help you do just that.
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