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Beginners Guide To Screenwriting - Shannan E. Johnson

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Is Your Character Just Not Doing What You've Said?

When someone is really forcing an action from their character, it can be because the evidence is just not on the page. It's like we know that you needed this character to end up in jail, but it isn't set up that our character would have even done any of those things that they did to be in jail. So it's like, you got to set me up with the information so i can believe it. Because everything is cause and effect. If i have an argument in this room, when i walk into that room, my energy is going to be different if i had not had an argument inthis room. The same thing is true about your characters. Why are they doing

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