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Conflict and Emotional Connection: Every Beat, Trope, and Scene Must Have These

Story Grid Writing Podcast

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What's the Cross Purpose of the Object of Desire?

Dawson is the one who's going to interview this guy Randall and then Watson comes in and kind of swoops the witness has something come up like maybe he has something urgent. So it looks like Watson is on board with Dawson and the lieutenant when he hands Randall the 10 at the end because that's the tool of corruption, payoffs. A payoff is an indicator. It's signal, right? I always talk about signal. You've got to find the thing that indicates corruption and a payoff is beautiful.

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