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Podcast: The 7am Novelist
Episode: Day 40: How to hold up the Middle with Annie Hartnett & Sara Shukla
Description: According to Jessica Brody’s Save the Cat Writes a Novel, the Fun & Games beat is pivotal for laying the groundwork of your story as you move into the second act while getting your characters moving. So how to do it? And how do the Fun & Games lead to your book’s all important Midpoint? To help us out, we talk to authors Annie Hartnett and Sara Shukla.Sara Shukla is an editor and writer for Cognoscenti, WBUR Boston Public Radio’s ideas and opinions page, and a graduate of Grubstreet’s novel incubator. Her novel, Pink Whales...