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So You Wanna Be A Writer?

Act 2 of the 4-Act Method

Structure for Pantsers 11

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Monalisa Foster
Oct 26, 2025
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One of the challenges in talking about the Big, Swampy Middle is that I could spend a lot of time on it. If there was a section that would most require “drinking from a firehose,” this would be it.

This is the part of the story that slays most writers, especially the ones that have run on excitement or emotion or the rule-of-cool factor like “Wouldn’t it…

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