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81 | Why Character "Wants" Matter More Than Almost Anything Else

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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I Got Swepped Away in a River

If you have a character who doesn't want anything they still do not wanting things is an active want right go ahead for you. I'm really struggling with it because it's not an active I want things to be this way or I want this for myself it's tricky that's a high that's ahigh that's one so I'm I'm I've been struggling with it for quite a while but it'sYeah I would have to get into the definition for her specifically what is how it wasWhat did that mean for her and how is she literally trying to create very specifically those things? "I think the more specific you can get and dig into her brain versus another person who might be

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