On Launches.....
I have recently finished the first KPP1/beginning edits for all novels. My goal is to get the KPP2s, the launch points, done this week. What are launch points? I read something in Donald Maass's (lit. agent) workbook
about building interesting or tense content between opening pages and the main events of the novel. He called it "bridging conflict." When I started writing out of order, I felt that there had to be something to balance the climax section of the novel. So, I started thinking about what the beginning meant. It is a hook, an introduction to the important elements of the novel. The climax is the key scene before the denouement, or end. Now, I couldn't have an idea as important as the climax in the beginning, but I could have something that started the plot ball rolling. Something that moved the reader and characters to the main conflict. What was that point? I called it the launch point.
