Ben Reeves

Monday 12th October 2026

This is one I need to remember...

Sometimes you’ll know that a particular section of the book needs more scenes, but you can’t think of what to write.

The answer is to write the rest of the book.

By the time you’ve done that, you will know your ending. You will understand your characters better, and their motivations, and their hurts, and so on.

The remaining scenes (that you couldn’t think of before) will now be much more obvious, because you’ll know what needs to be clarified, set up, and foreshadowed to make the rest of the book work.  

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