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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 Love That You're Defining Your Wants

"I usually want things. Oh, I don't know I'm not going to say like bigger. I want you know I want big wants so and I've learned to have that by the way and we're going to talk about that but I'm in the vulnerable stage right now and my brain has just turned on fire," she said. "It got triggered from a multiple of things a conversation I had with somebody who was very erratic and I didn't feel safe creatively." She added: "At some point you just have to forgive yourself if the switch flips"

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