How a Four Minute Song From Les Miserables Can Help You Write a Great Plot

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- Notre Dame, site of another Victor Hugo story. No, not ‘Rudy’.

There is a part of storytelling that all the greats know. Get this right, and you will overwhelm your audience with emotion. Tears will be shed.

People will love your characters more than their own family.

Okay, I embellished a bit. Still, the lesson is important to any great novel, movie, or series.

And I learned it from a musical.

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