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127 | Scaffolding: Building Blocks For Your Career and Your Work

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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Building a Statue and Sculpting Instead

"I'm on like draft six of this script that I've been working on for ever," she said. "Every sculpture has an armature underneath it, right? And often when you start your early drafts, they all kind of franking things and there's no armature there." She says the most basic questions are: Who is the main character, what do they want,. What is in conflict to their want? How do I believe what they believe? It helps to obviously have somebody else do it with you.

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