Hey, welcome to the screenwriting life. I'm Meg Lafour. And I'm L'Orian McKenna. We are professional screenwriters. We've worked together as a team and separately. We've worked on studio and indie films, live action and animation. From my work on Inside Out and Captain Marvel.

To my work in Pixar Story Department on Up, Brave, and Inside Out.

We are here to share our insights on the craft of screenwriting and also the life.

Had a not only survived the ups and downs, but thrives.

We want to help you become the best screenwriter you can be

and to reassure you that you are not alone on this journey. All right, you guys, thanks for coming back and hanging out with us again today.

We are still home, riding out Corona.

And this week on the show we're going to be talking about how to work with producers.

Right, but before our topic, we're going to talk about our week or what we like to call.

Adventures in Screenwriting. I love that title.

So, Meg, how was your week?

Oh, I go first.

Okay. You want to go first? I can go first. I will go first. Okay. I had one of those weeks. I'm split into too many different things. I'm going into too many directions. So I feel'm I'm doing them all poorly. But I'm laughing because I that resonates with me not because I'm laughing at you.

Mauryan. Sorry. I have a lot of chatter in my head.

You know, so I've taken to run walking, well walk and then a little bit of run because I can't run.

But it helps get my body going and then I'm also able to just

start thinking about the story as I run which I don't know if some reason working out helps me

calm it all down and this was for a project that I'm trying to get.

And I was thinking about the antagonist and all of a sudden running.

He was like talking to me and shape shifting.

And he was, it was a interesting experience experience I hadn't had that before

where letting during exercise which I hate I was able to access story in a way that

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