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The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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Starting with Feeling and Reverse-Engineering a Story

Start with the feeling and then build the plot and backstory around it/nAnalyzing movies that make you mad can help generate ideas for improvement/nAsking yourself questions can lead to transforming a disliked movie into something meaningful

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