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Week 1 Day 5 – What did you learn?
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The deeper and more raw the wound and the closer it rises to the surface, the more it affects the character’s behavior and the greater the need to address it.
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I have learned I am quite a bit behind and have no idea what lesson the WIL is attached to. I have been taking extensive notes of the lessons, have kept all my posts.
As the main mission of this course was to really beef up the love interest into the hero at the end, manipulating her ex-husband/sheriff who is suspected of killing off his kidnapping suspects, her narcissist/billionaire/attorney boyfriend who actually turns out the be the kidnapping ring leader, and secretly raising up the Mexican Ghetto Gansters to kill off he kidnappers and rescue the children, AND, all the while trying to find her missing 4 year old daughter without getting revealed and killed…
I have created a character arc scene by scene for the love interest/hidden true hero to build in the action, keep her identity clues not too obvious, to slowly rise up to pulling off an explosive ending.
I am really excited to do a major rewrite for this character merging the scene rewrites already done in this class and weave her character development secretly from the audience in subtle clues and misdirection and her dancing with death manipulating everyone else to do her wishes.
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What I learned rewriting my character/scene?
I learned that I need a more profound wound for my lead characters. This would give my characters more depth with interesting layers. Given my Hallmark romantic comedy is vastly different from a serious drama, I still need to make my characters more dimensional as this can only improve my screenplay.
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