About the eighth or ninth time through it, I started liking Badlands. (I bought the album on word-of-mouth because istg my entire dash is in love with it? but tbh the first time I listened to it I just missed my money, haha…….) And by saying “I started liking Badlands” I mean “I really like these two tracks right here in the middle and the rest will be background noise for driving.

The good news: after listening to these two tracks on repeat for a while, I think I know how to fix Monochrome so I actually give a damn about the plot and the characters.

The bad news: it means gutting at least 85% of the original draft.

The best news: good time I don’t have to deal with this nonsense anytime soon, since I’m in another blissful no-writing phase.