OCTOBER 23, 2025 – What Happens in the Middle with Leah Henderson
While a well thought-out beginning sets up expectations, and a satisfying ending resolves the story, an impactful middle is where the story happens. It is the main part of our story’s journey, shaping its direction. It introduces uncertainty, increases tension, heightens consequences, and undermines a character’s strength, challenging their deepest held beliefs. It shifts time and place and speaks to theme and the promise of the story. In this hands-on workshop, we will break down our middles and look at how character choices, subplots, secondary characters, motivations, goals, and conflicts can help us create well-paced, unmuddled middles that hold a reader’s attention and help our story’s unfold.
While a well thought-out beginning sets up expectations, and a satisfying ending resolves the story, an impactful middle is where the story happens. It is the main part of our story’s journey, shaping its direction. It introduces uncertainty, increases tension, heightens consequences, and undermines a character’s strength, challenging their deepest held beliefs. It shifts time and place and speaks to theme and the promise of the story. In this hands-on workshop, we will break down our middles and look at how character choices, subplots, secondary characters, motivations, goals, and conflicts can help us create well-paced, unmuddled middles that hold a reader’s attention and help our story’s unfold.
While a well thought-out beginning sets up expectations, and a satisfying ending resolves the story, an impactful middle is where the story happens. It is the main part of our story’s journey, shaping its direction. It introduces uncertainty, increases tension, heightens consequences, and undermines a character’s strength, challenging their deepest held beliefs. It shifts time and place and speaks to theme and the promise of the story. In this hands-on workshop, we will break down our middles and look at how character choices, subplots, secondary characters, motivations, goals, and conflicts can help us create well-paced, unmuddled middles that hold a reader’s attention and help our story’s unfold.