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98 | The Definitive Lava Episode

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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How to Do Autobiographical Storytelling

Lava exercises are things like thinking about when you were the most afraid or ashamed. You can put into your characters and kind of archetypes, or imbue those archetypes with truth. So for example, on inside out, i'm trying to bring the authenticity and vulnerability of being apparent. And i'mn and i happened to be a girl who moved too, so i was able to dig into that. It's basically, and when you do this kind of deeper work, and i'm not seeing you're doing it all the time,. Sometimes you have to go off and do rintellectual work. The structure should be based on where you are driving to at the end of act

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