Since I'm currently stuck at the end of Act Two with no earthly idea what happens next, I'm beginning to wish i'd done that! Just decided to mentally abandon acts one and two and write an act three that I'm happy with, then go back and make the rest of the narrative fit logically with it...

This is great advice, especially if you buy into the mantra, "Everything leads to the end," meaning every scene should move the story along to get to the end. It makes sense that knowing/writing the ending would keep that focus and help the writer kill any superfluous scenes. Thanks, Tom. I'm looking forward to your posts! :)

Thanks for the reminder. I find knowing how I want my main conflict to resolve Act 4 including Blake Snyder's five steps - Gathering the Team; Executing the Plan; Hightower Surprise; Dig Deeper; Executing the New Plan and Finale - I find the freedom to explore relationships, skills, pratfalls, conflicts and twists in Act 2/3. This allows me time to setup Act 1.

Indies version 2.0 had to find some form of external financial capacities w/KickStarter (etc!) projects soon enough, i gather. Keep watching "creative minds" control, it isn't done yet. Now onto associative distribution pipelines... the whole cinema industry better adapt to such a free market model or else! :) OT; Outline & structure where you're goin' or you'll never get there -- in time.