On Writing: Nearing the Bumpy Middle

by Belle on June 13, 2009

Today’s word count: 4,069 words

NANTUCKET total to date: 42,573

HARPER total to date: 5,435

This will be a short and sweet post because once again, I’m late finishing up. (I’m hardly ever short and sweet, so maybe this isn’t such a bad thing.)

I am nearing the bumpy middle portion of NANTUCKET, and I keep thinking about everything I’ve read about how the middles are always the danger points – where you’re nowhere near the end, and too far from the delight of the beginning, and things start to sag and get a tad boring for the reader if you’re not alert.

I’ll have to think more about this as I drift off to sleep …

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1 Gabrielle Renoir June 13, 2009 at 2:12 am

I have no advice because I find middles terribly difficult. In fact, I find them so difficult that I switched to the short story! Just know I can empathize.

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