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Podcast: The Profitable Writer
Episode: Best Of: The #1 Writing Lesson from Disney’s Star Wars Trilogy
Description: In 2019, I sat in a darkened theater with my son Ben. We were there to watch a movie I had been anticipating for two years: The Rise of Skywalker. I enjoyed the movie, but let’s be honest: it was a mess. It was clear that the filmmakers of Rise were trying to walk back on story points from the previous movie, The Last Jedi… which had already taken a hard right turn from the story in the previous film, The Force Awakens. Any way you slice it, Lucasfilm obviously did not have the story for this...