#68: First Chapter Analysis: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince
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The Importance of Setting Goals
Samantha: If I were working with you as a writer and you told me that answer, I'd be like, that is great context to like how he's feeling, what he wants in general. And then I'd go, but what is he specifically doing or wanting in this scene? Yeah. So I would push you a little harder and say it's something like we see him literally going through reports and paperwork kind of mindlessly because like you said, he's distracted by all this other stuff, but he's really waiting for his meeting with that far away country person to start. That's like his goal, right? A specific goal, but the context you painted is all
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