Writers In The Storm welcomes back Kara Lennox, a.k.a. Karen Leabo for the final installment of her plot-fixing series.Kara is an award-winning, bestselling author of more than sixty novels of romance and romantic suspense for Harlequin and Random House. AND she’s a 2012 DOUBLE RITA Finalist! In case you missed any of the first lessons, you’ll find links below.
by Kara Lennox
Plot Problem #14: Weak black moment
There must be a point in your book when all seems lost.
The hero is about to fail in his quest; the heroine is about to be thrown off a building; the villain has gotten hold of the secret weapon. Your hero and heroine are breaking up and there appears to be no way to work out their differences.
Go back to Lesson 5 and review Plot Problem #7, Stakes are too low.
By now, hopefully you’ve raised the…
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Ella Quinn ~ Author 
Excellent post!
This is a fantastic post that led me to completely revise the black moment in my upcoming novella Betrayal. The black moment was pretty “eh.” Then I read this post and BAM it hit me what I needed to do. Didn’t want to do it, but I will and I think it will pack a punch. Every writer needs to read this one. Thanks for re-blogging it, Ella.
I’m glad Kara’s post helped you, Jenna.
And, thank-you, Ella, for the blog love. Your site is always a time sump for me! (But that’s good.)
-Fae Rowen