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Marie Brennan joins us again, this time to help us field your questions about middles. Here are the questions we collected from the various social media feeds:
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\n\t* How do you\xa0maintain interest without having something explode every other chapter?
\n\t* In short fiction, how do you prevent try-fail cycles from bloating the story?
\n\t* How do you prevent the\xa0introduction of POVs during the middle of the story from being\xa0jarring?
\n\t* How do you keep subplots from turning into side quests?
\n\t* In longer stories, how important are "breather" chapters that ease the tension?
\n\t* Do you have methods for weaving plot and subplot threads together? Do you outline this, or keep it in your head?
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