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17.21: Casting Your Story With Character Voice

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How to Write a Good Story in Sitcoms

I think it's really interesting that we're talking so much about sit coms as we go through these episodes. And one of the things that they are able to do really effectively is tell stories specifically designed to highlight the differences between the characters. A community did this all the time. Every member of that caste is a different religion and different background, and so they all interacted with christmas in different ways. There was a signfeld episode where set in a movie theatre, where the four main characters were just trying to find each other. I found that i had to be careful that the most interesting p o v wasn't someone who wasn't part of the ensemble in this book.

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