I am That Screenwriter and the more I spend time with your material I notice that it’s harder for me to create characters that have the same sufferings I would give them before.
My knowledge from SCS and which I apply to my own life and own thinking, starts to affect how I build my characters because I now know too well to do with old thinking.
Still, it seems like people are still captivated and transformed by stories about the wounds protagonists tell themselves they have and how they overcome them.
This is such a strange and fascinating place for me to be.
It’s like I sell people on stories that I actually know aren’t true in their basic mindset. If that protagonist will only change his thoughts, I wouldn’t need to tell the entire story… or something like that…