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#81: First Chapter Analysis: Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

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The Five Commandments in Crisis

The turning point causes the crisis question. Ultimately that is what develops the character and that's what moves the scene forward. I do think that you want to have five commandments in every scene, but just keep in mind that a chapter in a scene is a different definition. That doesn't necessarily have to happen in one chapter. Sometimes chapters have multiple scenes. And it actually we came up to the conclusion that there was one scene across two chapters. And it's just a matter of finding the commandments there.

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