Ireth
Myth Weaver
In looking at my drafts and outlines for Low Road, I feel a lot of disconnect between the first half (roughly) of the story and the second. The first half doesn't have much action to it, and is more about characters and their relationships, particularly the hero and his possible love interest. The action part comes in later, and gets a lot more intense once the hero is separated from said love interest and their mutual friend. I'm trying to think of ways to possibly make the first half more action-packed like the second half, but given that those three characters are very isolated for a good chunk of the story and the plot literally comes to them, I'm finding it rather hard. There are indications that all is not right in the world, of course -- the love interest drops hints about the villain as he works through his trauma, but the hero (and the reader) doesn't meet him until the second half. Any idea what I can or should do?