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The 3-act plot method (part 2)

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Monalisa Foster
Oct 03, 2023
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Previous post: The 3-act plot method (part 1)

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If you’ve not read the previous posts, I highly encourage you to do so, or the rest of this might not make sense.

One of the reasons that the Big Swampy Middle is called that, is because it is big, comprising half the story/word-count and its swampiness comes from the fact that it must bridge t…

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