RESEARCH: Alex Epstein on Writing Dumb Decisions

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Now this is something that caught my attention while checking my Blogger reading list this morning:

https://complicationsensue.blogspot.com/2020/03/brilliantly-dumb-decisions.html

Alex Epstein has a couple of books on the art of scriptwriting for film and TV that you might want to look up as time and access allow. But the blog alone is worth a couple of hours for anyone already inclined in that direction.

The specific reference to Jaws here...

Comments

[thewayne]

I hadn't considered that. For the most part, you want protagonists to be competent, but dumb decisions can certainly enliven a story.

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You don't want your story to be a complete idiot plot ever, true. But if there's a moment's dumbness that reveals something true about a character...?