Scenes That Can’t Be Cut (a.k.a., Finding a Scene’s Purpose) from THE FIRE IN FICTION by Donald Maass

Excerpt from Chapter 3, “Scenes That Can’t Be Cut,” in The Fire in Fiction by Donald Maass I suspect many sagging middle scenes slump the way they do not because of bad planning or bad luck but because their purpose hasn’t yet emerged. Authors, as they plow through the middle portion of their manuscripts, tend […]