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I've been working hard on my musical over the weekend, trying to fix the end of Act I/beginnng of Act II (in this context I mean Act I and Act II in a theatrical sense rather than Act 1, 2 and 3 in a story sense, it becomes confusing when writing notes). I solved the problem with an excellent new opening to Act II. And then realised that it makes a far better ending to Act I.

Does this ever happen to you? You come up with a great idea that is perfect, but necessitates massive changes in what you'd already written. You can't ignore it because in the back of your head would always be the knowledge that you let a superior piece of work go. So you have to knuckle down and change the stuff that was locked months ago, re-work the structure (and in this case the songs) and add a couple of weeks to your schedule. By which time you'll probably have come up with an even better idea.

Good ideas are not a problem with the sitcom formerly known as My Sister; I don't have any. That's not true; I have one. It's too good to throw away but it's proving unbelievably difficult to spin out into an episode. the annoying thing is that I can write dialogue for these characters till doomsday, but until I have a story there's very little for them to say.

Remind me again why I want to do this for a living.