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118 | SPECIAL: Live Story Workshop From the 2022 Austin Film Festival (ft. Joe Forte)

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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I'm Not Gonna Allow My Brain to Push It Out to Stepfather

Charles: Can you find a way in the imaginary world of cinema to provide an answer for anybody who's watching this movie. He says that even just as a writing exercise is if you didn't give yourself the safety valve of the stepfather and made it a father see what bubbles up inside of you because you see how the brain sometimes pushes it right. "I still think there's something deeper emotional going on that I would still work on that first sometimes the logic can help you actually burrow into the deeper but generally that's an intellectual exercise"

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