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WEEK 2 DAY 2: WHAT I LEARNED REWRITING MY SCENE/CHARACTER
You’ve watched today’s scene and read the group’s insights. Then you rewrote a scene/character using those insights.
Tell us what you learned by taking those steps!
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I learned that my protagonist is too passive when it comes to confronting the antagonist, and could do more to figure out the antagonist’s strengths and weaknesses rather than running from them.
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My villain is a narcistic billionaire attorney who is secretly running a kidnapping/human trafficking ring and pursuing the main character’s ex-wife. The main character is a beaten, alcoholic sheriff, divorced, hoping to reunite with his ex, find the kidnapper. He is passive aggressive. I thought about making him appear a more worthy opponent against the villain. I have chosen to let him be passive, get beaten down even more. In the subtext we slowly start to suspect he is killing off the kidnapping ring rather than bring them to justice. As he starts to look sure to fail, his ex-wife rises up secretly with hidden clues, manipulating her ex-husband/sheriff, her kidnapping boyfriend, and the Mexican gangsters to become the hero saving the kidnapped children. I want the audience to have empathy and root for our main character while he fades to the depths of no hope and the point of no return. Having his ex-wife be the surprising hero revealed in the last scene.
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What I learned rewriting my scene/character?
I learned the more I contrast my characters, the more I can reveal about them without being on-the-nose. If I have completely opposite characters, I can let the differences “speak” for themselves allowing what is unsaid to come through and be conveyed in the writing itself, through world and character description and dialogue.
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Excellent observation James.
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