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143 | Where To Begin As A Screenwriter (Pt. 2)

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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How to Write a Wound

Meg Ryan: I think to try a bunch of different methods out, start with that. Here are a bunch of questions you can ask about your character. Great, does that help you get where you wanna go? Is it just help just to write? Figure out what works for you, which is a lot of experimentation and time. Meg: A lot of this stuff that we're talking about right now, I do after they have a character in order to see them better,. There's a piece missing. Then I go to these questions. But then again, they become performative or constrain. Inevitably, they are a character that doesn't feel real.

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