Making progress on a new book, but we'll see...

This new character-centered approach that I'm trying out seems like a really powerful way of structuring stories, and it's allowing me to rethink all kinds of ideas that I'd previously shelved as unworkable (before, I always used to get a third of the way through the idea and then say, "Ugh, but what is there for the character to do?" Now I feel like I …