Hello and apologies for being MIA

I've been stuck rewriting and revising for like two whole weeks. And I feel like I'm just fully in the densest of woods.

I've never been fully satisfied with this specific section of a pilot: Act 2 up to the Midpoint. It has always felt too much like set-up leading to the Midpoint, with no strong climax of its own. And I realized at some point that I was so uninterested in that section of the story specifically *because* I never felt like my characters were doing anything other than setting up events to come.

It sucked.

So I've been writing and scrapping and writing and scrapping and writing for days now. Testing out different ways to accomplish the many goals I've set up for this section. I love this part of writing, tbh. The puzzle solve. It lets me know I'm gonna be fine, that my writing is gonna be fine, because I always end up at the right solution. But the working through it can feel daunting and very isolating.

So I'm briefly stepping out of my cave to come up for some fresh air before I go right back in!

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