How to write the midpoint of your crime novel

How to write a crime novel, episode 5

The midpoint is a vital moment in the structure of your crime novel. Here’s how you get it right.

Here’s what you need to do, briefly:

• Your hero has been investigating for six or seven scenes by this point in Act II, so it’s time for you to give the reader a big, impactful punch
• Think of the midpoint as a second opening sequence. Give it that much thought. So that it will propel your reader right through the rest of Act II and into the denouement
• Change the direction of the plot. Kill someone. Drop a big, new clue. Increase the tension with physical danger to the hero

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