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One full outline and ~2k words of a first chapter into my Saltburn Groundhog Day AU. It has become a source of immense amusement to me, so probably worth sticking it out and finishing the thing even if it winds up being just me who is this endlessly amused by the shenanigans that Felix and Oliver will be getting up to...

Finally let go of a plot beat tonight that I'd been convinced was necessary at this point in the story, even as every way I tried to write it still felt clunky and wrong for the characters at their current point of growth.

Suddenly, the flow of the whole chapter feels smoother, and I wound up writing more words tonight than I've written in... weeks??

Lesson learned, I guess! If a plot beat refuses to work even after multiple iterations, perhaps it's a sign that I was letting the narrative drive the characters' choices to an unhelpful degree, instead of letting the characters drive the story in a way that actually suits who I'd written them so far to be.

Me: I'm going to write Felix and Oliver sharing a few nice, happy stories from their childhoods as they get to know each other with less lying going on.

Also me: Look at how much trauma Oliver has from growing up lonely with no one who wanted to be friends with him! What if I... added another sad story to this pile?