Oh Baby, Look at that Backstory and Goals

September 21, 2022 • 00:03:42
Oh Baby, Look at that Backstory and Goals
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Oh Baby, Look at that Backstory and Goals

Sep 21 2022 | 00:03:42

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Carrie Jones Shaun Farrar

Show Notes

Without knowing the backstory, we wouldn’t know the emotional goals of the character, the why for their tangible goals. Instead we’d be reading and thinking, yeah, he wants this. So what?
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