Dear reader,

I got stuck on outlining my book.

I was bored and dragging my feet through every scene of Act 3 (out of 4). Something was wrong, so I had to take a step back and return to the drawing board to brainstorm.

Through this process, I quickly worked out what the problem was.

The job of Act 3 is to line up the dominoes so that they can come crashing down in Act 4. That part was fine. Dominoes in place. All good. The issue was that the dominoes line up too easily. Everything works out for the p...