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17.24: Ensembles and Genre

Writing Excuses

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The Incredibles Got It

A, a, one of the things that i realized was that what i was aiming for was guardians of the galaxy meets murder. She wroteow granit ye wrote murder. There are rules for the cosy genre. That's why so many of these scenes i'd written in my first draft didn't work. To ana cose, the detective is never actually threatened. We don't actually see violence committed. Andi, just hold this forth as an example,. because for me, learning the genre and actually gogling and reading what the expectations were for this genre is what made the story work. The incredibles got it. None of the fantastic four movies did.

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