Creating a Character Bible
Let’s talk about character bibles. When I took a screenwriting class years ago at NYU, creating a character bible, lowercase[…]
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Let’s talk about character bibles. When I took a screenwriting class years ago at NYU, creating a character bible, lowercase[…]
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