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Russell Nohelty
Apr 13, 2024
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Hi friends,

I don’t talk about craft much, but there is one thing I learned as a screenwriter that I don’t ever see mentioned in writing prose.

If you want to get empathy for your main character, or yourself if you’re writing memoir, then you need to show them in three places.

Home, work, and play.

Three scenes as early in your piece as possible where the…

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