Screenwriting Back to Basics, Day 4: Character = Function

Scott Myers
Go Into The Story
Published in
4 min readAug 25, 2022

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Every character in a screenplay has to be there for a reason. That is their narrative function, who they are and what they do tied to the plot.

As we prepare for the 2022 Zero Draft Thirty September Challenge, a five-part series on Screenwriting Back to Basics. Today: Character = Function.

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