One of those days

I was having trouble with a scene I was reworking last night. A whole sequence of events had left a reader thoroughly pissed off with a character, and that wasn't meant to be the reaction. So I've been working it and working it, and got to a point where there's a transition. The motivation was always a bit murky, and it really needs to be clarified. I need to move from one quite extreme state to one of acceptance, and have the person not come across as a hypocrite, or have the reader dismiss ...