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Unlock Your Story And Pitch Your Screenplay In One Simple Sentence - Naomi Beaty

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Is There a Goal for Your Character?

A lot of people understand that they need stakes in their story. There needs to be some consequence for failure otherwise why is this character doing this thing but I think the thing that a lot of people miss is tying those stakes to a deeper meaning so it's not just an external thing and when you're dealing with things that aren't life and death it's even more important to go into the the why behind it right? So if Lady Bird talked about that she felt like she grew up on the wrong side of the tracks where all her friends maybe were a little more affluent and she's always wanted to kind of prove that she belonged in that world kind of thing yeah. Even though she has this

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