an ending must be both “inevitable and unexpected. - Robert McKee

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Who are these characters? What do they want? Why do they want it? How do they go about getting it? What stops them? What are the consequences? Finding the answers to these grand questions and shaping them into story is our overwhelming creative task.

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The music of story is conflict.

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