Often times when designing a screenplay, screenwriters will focus on one element of a backstory but not the other, more important, one. Most of you are writing an incomplete backstory.

Listen to find out what that is.

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A great conversation with Chad Handley, the show runner for the Netflix steampunk anime show, Bass X Machina.

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In this episode, we continue our series on Protagonist's Problems. This is a big one!

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Lukas Hassel is an award-winning actor, screenwriter and filmmaker whose credits include The Blacklist, Blue Bloods and The Night Agent. He wrote and stars in the psychological horror-thriller House of Abraham alongside Natasha Henstridge and Lin Shaye.

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How well do you really know your protagonist? The odds are, not well enough.

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Your protagonist wants something. You've made that perfectly clear. But what if they want the wrong thing?

In this episode, we look at the difference between having a goal and having a goal powerful enough to drive an entire screenplay.

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You want the audience to like your protagonist. Of course you do. But sometimes trying too hard to make a character likable does exactly the opposite.

In this episode, we look at why being "nice" might be one of the things keeping your protagonist from coming alive.

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Welcome to our new series on issues with Protagonists in your screenplay. In this series, we will look at a number of issues with protagonists and help you try to solve them.

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For more information on Lovinder Gill's best-selling book "Scriptcake Secrets" or his public speaking schedule, please check out www.lovinder.com.