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Beginners Guide To Screenwriting - Shannan E. Johnson

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What Is a Mid Point?

In act two, we're actually watching the character try to achieve the goal. And then you need a mid point. Happens kind of in the middle of your story. Doesn't have to literally be on page forty five of the 90 pages but i's going to happen somewhere around there. Something big enough happens to cause that re direction. Either i'm going to hit rock bottom, or i have a false victory, or u i receive some information that changes my goal. So now my goal is not to find my child. My goal is to find the killer to get revenge, to get justice.

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