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102 | Creating and Healing Wounded Characters w/ Studio Exec Turned Coach Jen Grisanti

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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The Flaw in Flight Attendee

Dead to me is about a flight attendant who wakes up with the dead man next to her. She was there when, not to give anything away, spoilearlyr but she was there when her father died and they were drinking. And that woke up what well later learn in the series arc is her childhood' wound. When you start with a flaw, then you'r creating anticipation and to want to know the story of the wound. I would also just add in for our writers a, if you can make the flaw active, much better for you. A lot of people choose flaws of inactivity, passiveness or shyness. But it's not that fun to watch.

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