Turning points
As part of revising middle chapters in my current draft, I’m looking at some notes I made on turning points while writing Deep as a Tomb. The typical problem in the middle of a novel is that the story sags. You’re not yet to the climax but are laying in all that has to happen before the climax can happen. That can drag. Turning points The best advice I’ve seen for avoiding that sagginess is to give each scene an internal and…