The Business of Screenwriting: Act Two Blues

Scott Myers
Go Into The Story
Published in
6 min readOct 13, 2022

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The weird synergy between the Protagonist’s challenges in the middle of their story… and that writer’s life.

It is January 17, 1994. My wife and I had gone to see Schindler’s List in Century City. Now back home in our 1,300 square foot fake English tudor house in what is charitably called “Beverly Hills adjacent,” we have a few glasses of wine to decompress. We process the movie until…

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