49 | Michael Arndt's Act 1 Masterclass
The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna
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The Midpoint in a Story Meeting
Michael Douglas: Every story is a, to me in my mind, every story is a closed system of logic. It's narrative logic, it's emotional logic and it's thematic or full software logic. So you need a three act structure externally, internally and philosophically. And that's just really hard to do. You know, if I can just give a bit of advice, like now I always go into any project going, I'm going to write 20 drafts of this. Right?
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