After losing her arm in a car accident, a prodigious but reckless chef reconciles with her ill father, who encourages her to seek redemption and forgiveness.

Redemption and forgiveness for what?

I like the idea of a skilled chef losing her arm so is unable to do what she is good at but, for me, the goal should then be overcoming this adversity. It’s a physical disability and an emotional journey. The journey should be physical too BUT through that she goes on an emotional one.

I feel like what we’ve got so far is the first act only. I want to know what she’s going to do next.

Act I should be she is already a highly skilled chef, she’s a hard ass, and isn’t well liked. Much quicker and you don’t have to worry about cramming her rise to where she is in 30mins. Chances are, before she was a great chef, she wasn’t quite as “hard-ass” and was more liked by those around her and it’s the nature of her desire to succeed that she pushed all those things aside to get to where she is. If the audience sees what she was like before she became the great chef, there’s a chance that where she ends up at the end will have less of an impact because the audience will have seen that she can be a better person already. Does that make any sense at all?

I think she should be attending meetings in act II as this is where you’re going to meet the additional characters who provide the different perspectives on her point of view. Act II is all about her fighting between who she was and who she is and there needs to be people who represent both sides of this in her life – past and future – Father and fellow disabled person. As I mentioned before, through one of these characters (the B-Story) she has a turning point that pushes the story into Act III.