Listening to David Farland talk about the parts of a story persuaded me to add back part of the epilogue to MAGE STORM. Not all of it, only about a thousand words. So now, MAGE STORM is 59,000 words–a hair long for middle grade, but hopefully not fatally so.
He laid out the parts of the story very neatly. It was his discussion of the denouement that convinced me I had cut off Rell’s story a little too abruptly. Even though there is the potential for a sequel or two, there were a couple of conflicts left dangling that I really wanted to wrap up in this one. I’d just taken too long about it in the first book, so I cut it down to the absolutely necessary scene and stopped there.
Where did I hear David Farland talk about the parts of a story? In Tuesday’s Author’s Advisory sponsored by Farland’s Writers’ Groups. You can find the link in the side bar.
Wish you had known? Sorry you missed it? You can listen to a recording of it on Robin Weeks’ blog (also in the side bar).
Meredith Mansfield, Author 
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