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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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Do You See What I'm Saying?

Moana has to claim her power and do it herself at the end because, so that's just something to think about with child protagonists. And any end of act two, I want you to ask, what are they, what is your main character coming into consciousness about themselves? Not the situation, not other people. Because that's not a transformation about them. Do you see what I'm saying? The end of act 2 has to be about something cracking open inside of them that is illuminating themselves.

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