Tip #104: What's in a middle?

The protag can’t immediately know what to do to resolve the problems and bring about the ending... they need to figure things out piece by piece. Each clue or discovery or action brings them closer to the major event at the end of act two that sends them hurtling toward the climax.
Odds are you’ll have three to five big plot things that happen in the middle.

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