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Writing Excuses 10.27: Why Can’t I Just Jump to the Ending?

Writing Excuses

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The Middle of a Novel

The end point of the middle for me is when it's do or die time. Everything has... You've done all the struggles and boom, something big has changed. And in a big epic fantasy that one day is still going to take as much space often as the middle did. But our time is ramping up. That middle is where we do all this stuff that we fail. It's not always the fail. Sometimes there are successes that still count as failures.

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