#WritingWorkshop Beat Sheets: A Map Through The Doldrums

One of the most commonly asked questions I get in my creative writing classes at school is how to get through middles. People get beginnings and endings intuitively, but the Middle Doldrums is where a lot of new (and not-so-new) writers have trouble. I struggled with middles for years and years, though many novels and short stories; I knew where I wanted to get, but not how to get there. How did authors come up with all the ‘stuff’ to happen in the middle? Where did they get these ideas from?...