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How to Connect with Characters: Finding the Motivation and Shadow in Yourself

Story Grid Writing Podcast

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What's the Difference Between Them and Them?

I think what it sounds like to me is that when you go into these, the MDR states, and you have these experiences that you're tapping into your story sense, and you're generating these things. And so what happens is that they come out and they work and they conform to all of these things, but it's all implicit. So what you're trying to do whenever you write something that's not coming from that experience is you have to then make it explicit. That feels a lot clumsier because you're having to break down a methodical way of doing it that isn't just relying on instinct. I can see why that would be really frustrating because it's like,

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