Do You Have a Sagging Middle?

 by Sybil JohnsonWe’ve talked about endings of stories on this blog. How about those sagging middles? Even if a writer has a clear picture of the beginning and the end of a story, we sometimes get lost in the middle. How do we get to the end in a way that makes sense and keeps a reader’s interest?When I first started writing, I read a lot of how-to books on writing in general and mysteries in