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38 | Writing Antagonists (And Why They're Really About Your Hero)

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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The Power of Character Exposure

"I always say to emerging writers, your job is to beat up the main character as if you took a stick out and we're beating the shit out of them," she said. "It's almost, to me, it's condescending to assume they can't take it ... Of course they can."

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