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72 | Three-Dimensional Character Toolbox: Wants, Desires, and Agency

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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What Is the Story Becomeing?

"It's not about you coming up with a story and then making characters go through it. It's me assessing at the deepest, most organic level, what is the story becoming," she says. "When they surprise you, you have the dexterity to go, wait, what is this telling me? And step back into the character."

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