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Only one conflict per scene, please.
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the motivation for the hero to succeed must be a basic one.
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THE BLAKE SNYDER BEAT SHEET
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the debate section must ask a question of some kind.
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Another booster rocket character is the manicurist in Legally Blonde.
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Every character has to have a unique way of speaking, but also something memorable that will stick him in the reader’s mind.
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reveal the ups and downs of sacrificing
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Dude with a Problem – This is a genre that ranges in style, tone, and emotional substance from Breakdown and Die Hard to Titanic and Schindler’s List.
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who comes up against the others the hardest, and who grows the most?