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John Truby, screenwriting teacher for decades, has started teaching Novel structure. Similar but different. Novels are more free: you can write anything and cost of production is all the same (words printed on a page) -- not so in movies. Novels have interior monologs from the Hero, sometimes from others. Movies almost never do that. Novels can spend more time on description of people, place, thing, events, environment, etc. Novels can be less conflict-driven than movies, where more things have to HAPPEN than in a novel where things, people, events, etc. can just BE, if sufficiently well described.

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