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How to write a scene that turns

Your first reader got to the end and said, kindly, that it dragged a little in the middle. You can't argue, because you felt it too: somewhere around the second page, that sensation of a scene idling with the handbrake on.

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What editors actually mean by pacing

Writers who take the rhythm note seriously tend to come back with a manuscript of clipped fragments. Short sentences.

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Point of view: psychic distance is a dial

Writers whose prose is described as flat are very often writing every paragraph at the same middle distance, so the moment that matters gets no more intimacy than the walk to the car.

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How to revise a novel so the revision ends

He also noted, with the honesty of a good editor, "a certain slight sagging in chapters six and seven", and admitted he did not know how to suggest a remedy for it.

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Novel Writing Guides: Craft, Structure and…

Structure and shape22 min read8 sources How to diagnose a sagging middle. Why act two goes slack, why you cannot see it from inside a chapter, and a diagnostic you can run on fifteen chapters in an evening: with the difference…