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Hi, @morreafirebird

Nice to meet you! 🙂

I honestly don’t have any thoughts either way on dividing the story into four parts, on if it will work or not. 🤷‍♀️

I don’t know if this is helpful, but I recently had issues with drafting after my midpoint as well. I had a clear climax scene in mind and my outline included general notes on how events progressed from midpoint to climax. But I stalled in the actual writing. I struggled to get scenes on paper that felt right.

Basically, for my climax, my MC has to be at a particular location. In my original outline, I figured a second character had to be at the same location as well. I was running into trouble getting both characters at the location in a way that felt natural, and with the way I set everything up, I created a situation that made it implausible either character would succeed. There was no way my MC could survive and the scenes building up to the climax were clunky and disjointed as I tried to get both characters to the same location. I was worried the whole plot was a failure because I couldn’t make it work.

The scene was so vivid in my head, but I just couldn’t make it work. Then I had the realization that both characters don’t need to be at the same location in the end.  Everything else works even if they are in different places. This changed my climax a bit, and I had to re-outline sections. But then everything fell into place; I had a more plausible climax scene and the events leading up to it flowed much better.

All of this is a lengthy way of suggesting that perhaps there is a logistical issue with the climax (or another big plot point) that is interfering with the preceding scenes clicking? That was my issue, and changing a small detail fixed the outline problems.

Anyway, that’s my advice that could have nothing to do with your outline question. 🤣 I hope this helps!