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🗓️ 29 June 2023
⏱️ 69 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hey everyone welcome back to the screenwriting life. I am Meg Lafov. |
0:08.0 | And Loring is not here today but producer Jeff is and we are so excited to be talking about part three of your amazing |
0:14.7 | beginner questions. If you haven't, we've done both a part one and part two. |
0:18.3 | Kind of talking in general about not only where to begin, but some of those exciting beginner questions that we ask is emerging writers. |
0:25.4 | So go back and listen to those parts if you're just catching our show for the first time, but without further ado, |
0:31.5 | Meg, we're going to start with the question from Kara. |
0:34.0 | It could be Kara, but either way, she asks, how does one know that they have the main relationship |
0:39.7 | and what are some guideposts or checkpoints one can refer to to ensure the main relationship is the correct one? |
0:47.0 | Big question. We could do a whole show on relationships and main relationships but I will try to |
0:54.2 | condense here just into kind of the biggest points. And by the way, main relationship is just |
0:59.2 | something that I coined when I was teaching at UCLA because I kept finding I was asking the same questions |
1:05.8 | over and over, which we did post those questions on the Facebook group so you can go take a look |
1:10.4 | over there at those questions, which is just kind of like the 10 to 20 questions |
1:15.0 | to ask yourself about the project you're working on, mainly for features. |
1:19.8 | But one of those questions is, what's the main relationship. You know, telling a story is a lot of things, but I think one of the main reasons we all listen to |
1:29.5 | storytelling, whether it's over a campfire or whether it's in a movie or on a TV or an audio drama is for |
1:36.7 | relationship. And what we invest in and care about is a relationship or multiple relationships. Even if your story doesn't end with the |
1:46.8 | plot, well, i.e. Rocky can lose the fight, but what we care about is of course that relationship and where it ends up and |
1:55.7 | Lindsay Duran does an amazing seminar on this in terms of why we care so much about |
2:01.9 | relationships in storytelling which if you can hear that, it might be on YouTube. |
2:07.0 | But I coined the term main relationship because for me it's a great question to ask as you're |
2:15.7 | developing your project again I don't think it's something you might talk to |
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