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Who vs What

Writing Advice Wednesday

Audiences don’t care about what, they want to know about who!

I’m doing something a little different for the next few weeks. Last year I presented a workshop at the Copenhagen TV Festival in Denmark. I’ve split up the video recording of this workshop into several sections, relating to crafting better characters and help to bring your story to life.

Here is the second section, which discusses “Who vs What”:

Next week I’ll be sharing some great character examples.

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