What's the problem with having a lot of characters in a scene?  Aren't lots of people needed to make street scenes and party scenes and sports scenes and battle scenes credible?   I'll talk about the problem of too many characters, and how we can fix the crowded scene so it doesn't lose focus.  Also, a quick almost  magical way to make our sentences stronger using the global search function on our computer.  And lovely setting descriptions from Rachel Joyce.

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