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To figure it out, I wrote an "interview" with my protagonist. I asked him what he wanted, what decisions he thought he'd have to make to get what he wanted, and when he thought he'd have to make those decisions. Decided that "I" shouldn't have to think these things up by myself.

Maybe I'm just schizophrenic, but the "interview-the-protagonist" technique got a lot of stuff out of somewhere and onto paper. My protagonist seems much more "alive" to me, and now I have some "middle material" with which to work. Some of it was even completely unexpected. Does anyone else get stuck in the middle of a story? Have any other techniques to coax reluctant middles out onto paper? ]]> http://advanced.jhu.edu/ft/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=17&threadid=15 2006-03-03T09:38:20 -05.00 Mary Stojak 11