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115 | Can We Write Characters that Don't Reflect Our Experience? (ft. Dr. Yalda T Uhls)

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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Kids, Storytellers Always Say Boy Who Cried Wolf

A lot of people who write content for young people don't have children, right? I mean, or the, you know, and they are not. Frank: Kids learn differently and counterintuitively than you would think from an adult point of view. So this was a study where they were trying to decide how to kids learn how to be honest. In only one of them did a higher percentage of kids tell the truth when asked at the end of it. And which one would you guys think it is? Boy, I think it's Pinocchio.

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