Black Moment
Can you tell us a little about the all important black moment in your book?
Black Moment and it’s importance
The black moment:
Many events will lead to the black moment which comes near the end of your book. I don’t usually have this in my head when I start a book. If I do, it usually changes. I’m a panster to some degree so I wait until my characters talk to me.
In the comments please tell us a bit about your darkest moment in the novel you’re working on.
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I am at the first turning point of my novel Whispers of Death. In other words, I’m at the mid-point of my novel. My protagonist where the “hunters,” seeking the truth about deadly events occurring around them but not being directly involved with them. They now learn, antagonists may be targeting them if they continue their quest for the truth about the unexplained death of people dying suddenly at eleven fifty-eight am two days in a row in Ocala, Florida. The second turning point will be the end of my novel when the “black moment” will occur with my protagonist, where death will whisper in their ears. If you divide my novel in three acts” the first turning point would be between the first and second act; the second turning point would occur at the “black moment,” at the end of the second act and beginning of the third act or climax. This is what I’m planning to happen. But of course, events can change. Just like events in real life; we can never be sure what’s behind a door in front of us…until we open the door.
I had never heard the term, “black moment” with regard to a plot. I too listen to my characters, who generally guide me through the thickets of plot. There is a moment in my plots when it is obvious that the story has crested and is going to flow downhill to a conclusion. I’m frequently not aware of it until I feel the downhill momentum building. I suspect that to the extent that a reader likes my book(s), it has more to do with the reader liking the characters that an “Aha” moment in the plot. ROCKY POINT ROAD is crammed with likable people. I think the first Hugo Miller novel was like the 40 years in the desert as I waited for the voice of the narrator to emerge; it was the first time I had tried to write a first-person narrative in fiction. Even when I have written about autobiographical incidents in stories, they had always been third-person narratives. I will pay more attention to the crisis in my books now that I have this term, “black moment” in my lexicon. I know where the black moment is in WHERE ALL PAST YEARS ARE; it is a family crisis out of which a previously minor character emerges to solve the problem. Since that book is not released yet, I’ll leave it at that. Joe Allen