Instructor:  Tere Michaels
Start Date: Monday, June 2, 2025
End Date: Friday, June 27, 2025
Type: Group.io
Duration: 4 Weeks
USD Fee: FF&P Member – $20; Non-Member – $25

Stuck in the Middle: This class focuses specifically on the middle of your story, the bulk of the action that takes place after the set-up and builds up until you reach your “disembarking point” and the book’s ending.

How do you crank up conflict and emotion without writing yourself into a corner?

How do you fulfill the promise of your beginning (and your blurb), to deliver the book you’ve promised readers?

How do you keep readers emotionally engaged without having to use tricks and red herrings to make sure those pages keep turning?

Whatever your process—from highly detailed outlines to seat-of-your-pants writing, and everything in between—this class will help you build a framework for a successful, satisfying book. We will map out the high points (and low points) of the middle of your book. We will discuss how your “midpoint” is not exactly in the middle, nor does it indicate one moment in time. And we’ll help you decide precisely how to shake up the world you’ve created (so you can fix it in time for the end).

See next month for Part Three

About the Instructor:

Author/Plot Whisperer/Developmental editor with fifteen books under her belt (and two more due out soon!). From the Metro NYC area. Let’s talk about craft! (Or Marvel superheroes…or both!)

Tere Michaels unofficially began her writing career at the age of four when she learned that people got paid to write stories. It seemed the most perfect and logical job in the world and after that, her path was never in question. (The romance writer part was written in the stars—she was born on Valentine’s Day.)

It took thirty-six years of “research” and “life experience” and well… life… before her first book was published, but there are no regrets—she doesn’t believe in them. Along the way, she worked in television, animation, arts education, PR and a national magazine—but she never stopped believing she would eventually live her life writing stories about love.

Her home base is a small NJ suburb outside of Manhattan—a city she dearly loves. Her spare time is spent watching way too much sports programming, going to the movies, doing yoga, gardening, reading from her endless TBR pile, and thinking about superheroes.

Nothing makes her happier than knowing she made a reader laugh or smile or cry. It’s the purpose of sharing her work with people. She loves hearing from them and fellow writers, and is always available for consulting, speaking engagements, visits and workshops. Send here a message through her contact page or connect with her on Instagram and Facebook.

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