ABSTRACT
There ’s no question that confl ict is important. And we connect because we also strive, hit obstacles, suffer.
“ Life is suffering, ” the Buddha said. “ And such small portions , ” Woody Allen says in Annie Hall . But , as I’ve said, there is more. Connection is the other half of the story — of our lives and the stories we
tell. Good screenwriters understand this intuitively even though connection is essentially overlooked in screenwriting books.
