{"id":2927,"date":"2017-11-19T12:36:10","date_gmt":"2017-11-19T15:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/?p=2927"},"modified":"2017-11-19T12:38:41","modified_gmt":"2017-11-19T15:38:41","slug":"intention-obstacle-tactics-character-development","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/2017\/11\/intention-obstacle-tactics-character-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Intention + Obstacle + Tactics = Character Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Liberation Serif', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">I&#8217;ve just completed an assignment in a Screenwriting Master Class with Aaron Sorkin. Aaron teaches, \u201cA character is born from the INTENTION and OBSTACLE\u2014they want something, and something stands in their way of getting it.&#8221;\u00a0<span style=\"color: #5e6776;\">How they overcome those obstacles, or what TACTICS they use, define the character.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2928\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2928\" style=\"width: 1280px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2928\" src=\"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-content\/uploads\/make-money-dollar-usd-29022016-image-197.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1280\" height=\"938\" srcset=\"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-content\/uploads\/make-money-dollar-usd-29022016-image-197.jpg 1280w, https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-content\/uploads\/make-money-dollar-usd-29022016-image-197-300x220.jpg 300w, https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-content\/uploads\/make-money-dollar-usd-29022016-image-197-768x563.jpg 768w, https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-content\/uploads\/make-money-dollar-usd-29022016-image-197-1024x750.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 767px) 89vw, (max-width: 1000px) 54vw, (max-width: 1071px) 543px, 580px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2928\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Copyright Free &#8211; Stock Free images. Public Domain image dedication. CC0 1.0 Universal Licence &#8211; http:\/\/creativecommons.org\/publicdomain\/zero\/1.0\/<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Liberation Serif', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">The ASSIGNMENT: Write a scene where one character is asking another for money. The other character WON&#8217;T give them the money. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Liberation Serif', serif;\"><span style=\"font-size: medium;\">When it comes to giving money to others in need, I&#8217;m a soft touch. Here&#8217;s my take on the assignment. What would your take be? I&#8217;d love to read it. Please share.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>My take:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-content\/uploads\/Money.pdf\">Money<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve just completed an assignment in a Screenwriting Master Class with Aaron Sorkin. Aaron teaches, \u201cA character is born from the INTENTION and OBSTACLE\u2014they want something, and something stands in their way of getting it.&#8221;\u00a0How they overcome those obstacles, or what TACTICS they use, define the character. The ASSIGNMENT: Write a scene where one character &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/2017\/11\/intention-obstacle-tactics-character-development\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Intention + Obstacle + Tactics = Character Development&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,29],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-writing"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2927\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peelbooks.com\/susanjoycejourneys\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}