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The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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The Status You Can Choose Rock

"I swear to God, you know who who knows the next stone, your character. Yeah, the character knows it, but that you have to write in order for them to tell you," he says. "It's literally a slog through that swamp and I'm out of metaphors for rocks." The writer-director outlines his characters' story arcs on whiteboards or cards before they're even written.

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