24 | Perfectionism Kills Your Writing
The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna
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Writing a Scene That Feels Empty
"I love it, right? Like, don't even, this cannot be good," she says. "It was so freeing without those expectations." The best characters in writing are utterly imperfect and boring to play, he adds. In order for your character to have a cathartic second act emotional breakthrough, they have to be wrong in Act 1; then shift.
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