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51 | Vanessa Taylor On Non-Verbal Storytelling Secrets

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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Do You Believe All of Our Characters Are Manifestations of Yourself?

I think early on I had that problem a lot. Oh yeah my master's thesis was just a bunch of 28 year old angsty grad students. No boring. And then the house burned down and everyone died because it was a grad school thesis and that's how you end everything in school. One of our one of the last questions here unless I'm missing something you guys tell me, do you believe all of our characters are manifestations of ourselves? That's such an interesting question. If you can't relate on any level, I'm just not sure how you write a person. But they're little, they have little tiny like sparkles of us, I guess.

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