If you’re reading this post then you’re a character with a goal. Your goal may be anything from ‘learn how to write better characters’ or simply ‘pass the time’ because you can’t seem to write today, but one thing is constant … you have a goal. On a larger scope, let’s assume that because you’re reading this you probably want to write or direct or produce or act in the film business one day. Right?
It’s important to understand and articulate your own character goal before attempting to articulate one of …

 
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You’ll most likely be told to write what you know from dozens of screenwriting books, screenwriting professors, seminars, fellow students, and probably even strangers while preparing to write a screenplay, but if there’s one thing I’ve learned as a story analyst in Hollywood, it’s this:
If we all wrote what we knew on a first hand physical experience level, we’d be bored out of our minds!
Before we go any further, let’s just say that there are two ways you can look at the phrase “write what you know”:
1. Set out to write …