Moving on, folks. Finally more

Moving on, folks. Finally more progress on my novel. Finally THE chapter is behind me. It's short, fast paced and to the point. After fifty pages of build-up, that's exactly what it should be. I realize that I just told Jeremy in the other room that this is the point in the novel where it levels off... and it's been building and building and now POOF. This was wholly incorrect. Let me explain the structure of my novel in the most confusing way possible, and let me do it half asleep as I am now...

Pages 1-54 = setting up the characters.

Pages 1-50 = build up to the climactic chapter of the setup chunk.

Pages 50-54 = the climactic chapter of the setup chunk that leads the characters into...

Pages 54-??? = the meat of the novel. It should be said that I sometimes say that this is where things level off and the plot gets down and dirty... but there is nothing level about a down and dirty plot in action. A down and dirty plot in action is full of ACTION. Although my book is beautiful and does not have any gun battles, it does have plenty of unfolding events. This bulk of the book also needs a far more apparent build-up... build-up that leads to...

Pages ???-??? = the conclusion. Shorter than the setup. Begining with a bang and then winding down. Nuff said on that.

The short of it - 54 pages of setup are behind me and I am now ready to write the book I came up with before I realized that it needed more than 50 pages of setup to work correctly.