
141 | Television Writing Foundations w/ Javier Grillo-Marxauch
The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna
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How to Write a Three Act Play
I think that everybody has a method of screenwriting there most of them are equally valid uh and equally useful but I think when you break it down to its most core thing it's like what is the three act play even in a line. Once you start realizing that everything needs to have that build it actually clarifies a lot of you start questioning the question why am I doing this in a script how is it part of that three part structure? And so kind of what happens in a writer's room a lot um but I think that can be very helpful to keep in mind and it's something that you should learn to forget, just let it be instinct and music in you.
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