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815. Scene Writing

On The Page

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What Do They Want and Why?

Eric Liu: My book is divided into three parts, planning, drafting, and perfecting. In part one, this is something that you just brought up, Eric, your chapters are literally titled, what do they want and why? Why can't they have it? What are they going to do about it? And where and when is it going to happen? I mean, there's a whole, it's funny, we could go for days on this. We think of part one really as getting your story information figured out"

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