Writing Emotional Scenes That Bring Characters to Life

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I watched the movie Fatherhood Sunday night after writer friends posted that it was a sweet, heartwarming movie. Have you seen it?

The story is about Matt, a guy who loses his wife right after childbirth, and he’s suddenly a single parent of an infant. No one thinks he can raise the baby by himself. He doesn’t…