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219 | Practical Ways To Treat an Inactive Protagonist

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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Activating Character Agency

This chapter focuses on strategies for enhancing character development, specifically by ensuring protagonists are active and engaged in the narrative. The speakers provide practical exercises and probing questions to help writers clarify their characters' motivations and desires. They emphasize the significance of character agency in storytelling, encouraging the exploration of choices and consequences to create compelling narratives.

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