Prepping for Nano – How to Avoid a Saggy Middle

In my last post I wrote about why the first sentence is so important.

Once I’ve got that done, the next thing I concentrate on isn’t the opening chapter, or the first hook, or character development, it’s the middle. The ‘boring, saggy, middle’ as I used to call it. 

I ALWAYS have a problem with it.

I think it’s a really tricky part of the book to write. Mainly because you’ve done all the fun stuff, you’ve introduced who you’re writing about, got your characters into the sticky situation, sen...