The biggest note I’ve received on the animated fantasy-comedy is that my protagonist needs to be more involved; be the thing that drives things forward, and how what she does affects those around her.
The challenging part is figuring out how to do that while keeping a lot of important story details.
Challenging, but not impossible.
Just as I imagine this task becoming more insurmountable the more I think about it, I’m reminded that I did a major overhaul on my western that involved the same thing. The protagonist needed to be more proactive in driving the story forward.
The end result had A LOT of changes that required a new approach. It took some time, but I was able to accomplish that, and the script ended up being better for it.
No reason to think I can’t repeat it this time around.
Thus the revising is underway. Slow, but steady.
I’ll get there.