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81 | Why Character "Wants" Matter More Than Almost Anything Else

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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When Do I Fucking Love Me

An animated dog or a Martian it doesn't matter those are vessels for the same thing and honestly a lot of the notes that everybody gets this is what the studio. Everybody gets the top incidents but they're not understanding or getting the juicy human underneath, he says. "So much of your act one is setting up so that the reader the viewer is in we are in strapped in"

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