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How A Writing Career Changes As You Get Older - Marc Scott Zicree

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How to Surprise an Audience

Every scene has an emotional point, ok? You try to avoid scenes that are just exposition. Usually it's conflict, but not always. I mean, usually the way it works with an audience is the structure is familiar, the details of the story are fresh. But what the characters say, how they get there, that's where you can surprise an audience,. and that's whereyou can engage them.

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