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35 | John August On Worldbuilding In Your Writing

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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What's Your Process With Fear Notes?

The process of writing a movie is trying to figure out where they got off the train. How do you do that, how do you find the note under the note, like what's your process with that? It's probing asking questions, figuring out sort of where they were at with the characters along the way where they thought the movie was headed, and what it is. And sometimes you find out like they're giving you a note that's not really about the story at all but it's about some of one of their own fears or something else that is going on.

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