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		<title>How to transform your character from wimp to hero</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[One of my students just asked me how his hero could gain courage. This highlights a common misconception about character arcs so I thought I&#8217;d share my response.
The two fundamental character flaws: lack of courage or lack of compassion
I remember arcing up in Lynda Heys&#8217; screenwriting course years ago when she said that characters only [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Why Baz Luhrmann’s Australia didn’t work</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Why Baz Luhrmann’s Australia didn’t work
We could talk at length about the flaws in the story of Baz Luhrmann’s Australia. But what was the fundamental reason it didn’t work? It wasn’t inspired by a writer’s fire.
Passion recollected in tranquillity
Wordsworth said that his poetry was “emotion recollected in tranquillity” and I think that’s true of most [...]]]></description>
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