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115 | Can We Write Characters that Don't Reflect Our Experience? (ft. Dr. Yalda T Uhls)

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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How Do You Write for Teens?

A lot of people write for teens and the way that they do it is, oh, I remember my teenage hood. You don't always have access to that eighth group as a writer necessarily. We are actually creating a program where we're training teens to 24 diverse teens from across the country. Only 4.4% of them wanted aspirational programming.

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