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Writing the Murky Middle: How Blake Snyder’s Save the Cat Can Help

Carol D. Gray / August 31, 2017 / 4 comments

I was floundering in the Murky Middle of my novel. You know that place—the one that happens after you’ve sent your hero off to find her heart’s desire, but before she actually gets it. Right, that place—the big, awful middle…

Charles Baxter’s Captain Happen in Middle Grade and YA Fiction

Carol D. Gray / April 12, 2016 / 10 comments

Meet Captain Happen—troublemaker, narrative enabler, change agent. The novelist, essayist, and poet, Charles Baxter talks about Captain Happen as one of several ways to increase urgency and momentum in fiction. Male or female, this kind of character shakes things up….