Stuck In The Middle: Mid-Draft Saves For Your Story

Writing craft is always the sum of various pieces, one of the most critical - and problematic - being the middle section of a novel or screenplay. But like every link in a chain, the middle depends on how you got there and where you're headed, which is where the challenges may reside. This tutorial focuses on your middle narrative - including the all-important mid-point story milestone - in context to overriding principles of story structure, with criteria and step-by-step diagnostics and fixes for the most problematic story middles, and the writers who are stuck there.

Included is a bonus article: "The Nine Sequential Missions of Story Architecture," which is an introduction to the principles of story structure.

Larry Brooks is the USA Today bestselling author of six critically-acclaimed thrillers, as well as the bestselling writing craft books, "Story Engineering" and "Story Physics." He is the creator and author of the popular writing website, www.storyfix.com.