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Ask the Write Questions with Dolly Alderton and China Moo-Young

BBC Writers

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How to Keep People's Attention

How do you keep people's attention? It's all about structure. There's also how to promise story visually not necessarily in dialogue or plot. You leave the audience a sense of wanting more. That transposing lots of our conversations about how we go in and out of scenes structurally because I think that's quite different to stage writing or novel writing.

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