We took our final school field trip over the long weekend *homeschool teacher smiles as she types, watching her young charges splash in the backyard pool* and one of the places we visited was Old Tucson Studios, locale of over 300 film and TV shows.  We were just coming off of a study on pioneers, [...]

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When coming up with our pretend characters, we try to keep them as realistic as possible. But in a pretend way. In my screenwriting class last night, the teacher and the actors who were reading our scripts aloud commented that you don’t want your characters to be realistic in a boring way. Cut to the [...]

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Introducing secondary characters seems easier to me than introducing my main character. With secondary characters you can sum up their physical description, give them a quirky little trait, and have your main character add some internal thoughts about them. But a main character, well, you are living inside her head. You have to do more [...]

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