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#68: First Chapter Analysis: Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince

Fiction Writing Made Easy

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The Prime Minister's Goal in a Scene

I always like to start with the point of view characters goal. So what is the prime minister's goal in this scene? That is an interesting question because we're learning about how he just I think he just wants to find stability essentially like he wants to. And then as we move into the story and we get the structural scene, being sending instant things, I think that that the want is aligned, but it shifts slightly based on the circumstances. Yeah, it's all related and we're fleshing it out a lot more in this book, which helps raise the stakes, even though the stakes are already raised in general.

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