The plot is not boring; this is why most manuscripts stalls out. The pacing are broken. Your draft is either too fast and shallow or stuck in internal monologues that lead nowhere. This happens even when you has a great idea for a breakup or heist. What happened? In short, it means that somewhere along […]

If you’re writing a novel, it might worry you that all your pages look like every other one on top. Maybe there is big globs of narrative text, which tend to glaze over eyes of readers. Or maybe there are frenetic lines of quoted material with nowhere to anchor them. It seems wrong, but as […]

Eventually, there’s going to be a moment in your novel-writing process where you slam into the invisible wall. Perhaps you envisioned the overall plot when you began, but now by Chapter Six youve got a side character asking questions you never intended for her to ask. Or maybe romance has flared between two characters who […]

Then there’s that moment at three thousand pages into your novel, where this little helper calculates structure for you. When do you know if you’re in middle act? Or is it even the beginning of the book? Are you in the dark night of soul yet? These questions trouble us, make our writing seem flat, […]