Act 2 is the guru's WARNING/SELLING TOOL. Fearing it will lead you to rewrite looking for act breaks, midpoints, dark night of the soul, etc. Don't let that generalized horoscope structure label system fuck with your work.
The trick is to write your first draft without rewriting until you finish the first draft.
Act 1) the first scripts you write, even if you tried rewriting while writing the first draft, are going to be crappy. So just pound out the first draft. See if you can make it any better after and if it's still a mess. MOVE ON.
Act 2) the more you get through first drafts and then look back at what could be fixed when your done, the better your NEXT story will be.
Act 3) Which will lead to you writing pretty decent FIRST DRAFTS that will be EASIER to fix in subsequent drafts.
POWER THROUGH THE FIRST DRAFT. GET ANGRY. PUT YOUR HEAD DOWN AND WORK.
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