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81 | Why Character "Wants" Matter More Than Almost Anything Else

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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Harry Potter and the Unwitting Hero

Jeff: I've been mowing around with this story where I'm interested in this character who like is dealing with baggage that his hometown knows about. He wants to move and just be normal and like let go of that so I don't know if that's a want you ever encounter, he says. Jeff: Harry Potter it's because he is special and he's the chosen one  that's a whole sub genre chosen one stories are chosenOne stories are a whole genre.

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