How to Write Your Way Out of Your Novel’s Middle

It’s possible to escape the cruel torture that is the middle of your book.

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Writing a novel is a long, twisted journey to and through the middle. I know this because I’ve published two books, and while the beginnings and endings of each were clear to me, writing the middle felt like I’d booked passage to a country where the language and customs were foreign to me — a journey from which I wasn’t sur…