![]() ![]() The Realization (end of Act II) generally tends to be my Midpoint. For me, my stories tend to naturally structure themselves into four acts, with three inflection points: Revelation (end of Act I), Realization (end of Act II), and Resolution (end of Act III). įirst of all, let me say: there is no wrong way to write a novel. The point that delineates the beginning from the end is the midpoint. For me, the middle of the novel is simply an extension of the beginning, and in fact, I tend to think of my books more or less in halves: the beginning, and then the end. I know a lot of writers struggle with middles, but I'm actually not one of them. ![]() I myself don't actually adhere to story beats all that strictly when I'm drafting I figure the beats out when I revise. Weiland's website Helping Writers Become Authors, and our own PubCrawl alumna Janice Hardy's Fiction University. I am sort of making up my own story beats here, loosely cobbled together from Blake Snyder's Save the Cat, K.M. ![]() So I've decided to tackle the next one on my list: The Midpoint. A couple of months ago, I wrote a post about Inciting Incidents that seemed to be helpful for a lot of our readers at PubCrawl, and I've had a few requests to continue dissecting story beats. ![]()
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