Have you ever had a flashback that immediately redirected your focus and shifted your energy in a good way? I recently had one of those. My writing instructor suggested that I take my favorite novel, flip it open to the center pages, and read the scene at the midpoint. He taught me that from those pages I could peek into the mind of the author and learn the most revealing components in the story because the action at the midpoint tells it all. Ask yourself a few basic questions, he said. What is the setting? How are the characters interacting? And what is at stake?

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