2 posts tagged with "beats"

Many authors watch their dashboards and see the same dip: readers breeze through chapters 1–5, then stall. Sales of book two lag, even though reviews for book one glow. Something in the engine is misfiring between beats, not at the big story mile markers.

Let’s make it measurable, fixable, and repeatable.

At midnight, the house finally goes quiet. Your desk lamp throws a warm circle over a stack of sticky notes, a half-cold mug, and the sentence you’ve been circling for days. There’s a whisper in the room—what happens next? Your story waits, heartbeat steady, asking you to answer.