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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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Writing a Barf Draft - You're Not Trying to Tell the Story

Be very very careful especially emerging writers or all of us that you're not psychologically protecting yourself by giving the true challenge problem need and want to the other character. Young young writers do this a lot where I mean an age now and I didn't say I saidyoung on purpose because they are still so young that they believe their life is all the fault of their parents right and maybe a lot of it is. If you're 20 years old the stronger story to tell is yours.

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