Hello everyone! My name is Marisol and I've been into Pokepasta ever since I was a kid but finally decided to make a proper account here.
I'm currently working on a Pokepasta called "The Ghost of Whitlock Manor". It takes place in the Galar region and is inspired by the likes of Shirley Jackson's The Haunting of Hill House, Edgar Allan Poe's "The Fall of the House of Usher", and Guillermo Del Toro's Crimson Peak.
It'll be a longer creepypasta, so I've separated it into a 3 act structure. Act 1 I've already written, and Act 3 I have planned out, but I'm really struggling with Act 2. I want to develop the relationship between the two human characters of the story while also delving more into the horrors and history of the house they're in, but I don't want to go into anything too scary/deep, as that is saved for the pre-climax/climax in Act 3.
Does anyone have any tips for writing the second act without making it feel like it's dragging along?
Btw this is Victoria "Tori" Lennox: the protagonist of the story
And this is Loretta: the keeper of Whitlock Manor!
(i drew both of these and got the background off of Adobe or smthn)
They may or may not be gay or at least have smthn going on hehehehe