35 | John August On Worldbuilding In Your Writing
The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna
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Do You Have Any Tips for Screenwriting?
I think I got out of writing the Arlo Finch books is because they're middle grade sort of like Harry Potter age. There's a term for which is called limited, like, limited third person or close third person. And it's like you feel you're right behind the shoulder of that main character so you still describe him in the third person but you really have insight to what they know and they see the world from their point of view. So I think if there are rules special things, you know, complications the world that you need to be explicit with your audience about. Pretty quickly. It may not be that opening sort of set piece but really soon you have to make it clear
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