> ‘My screenwriting prof once told us to avoid “just moving bodies through space” and she’s right. They were bodies moving through space, actors in a tired performance. I could tell they didn’t breathe, not like the characters in other stories, which were so alive you could hang out with them. Busy plots don’t allow characters room to be alive, to be human.’[^1] [^1]: writingwithfolklore \[pseud.], ‘Zoom In’, *Writing With Folklore* (Tumblr blog), 9 February 2022, [https://www.tumblr.com/writingwithfolklore/675729967690153984/zoom-in](https://www.tumblr.com/writingwithfolklore/675729967690153984/zoom-in).