At the Writer Unboxed Unconference last week—what a treat!—in one of agent Donald Maass’s workshops he talked about how good novel manuscripts fall short. The place they primarily fall short is in the middle. Too often editors report back to him that it just “lost steam.” He had excellent approaches to avoiding that, including engaging the reader with a character starting on the first page.
A writer at the conference posted the photo below, and it does such a fine job of showing the importance of the middle I just had to share it.
Submissions still needed for flogging. I have just one for this week.
For what it’s worth.
Ray
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