Hey, welcome to the screenwriting life. I'm Meg Lafour. And I'm Lorraine 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.

Hey guys, welcome back to the screenwriting life.

Welcome to the show and we get a ton of questions about tone.

And so we are going to devote this whole episode to it.

For today's episode, we've decided to recruit friend of the show,

Sheila Han Han Taylor, to help us talk about Stone

because PS, she's a genius.

And something that in our experience,

a lot of writers get wrong.

And I think they get it wrong in their pitches

and in their scripts.

So we're going to talk about it in a broad way and very specific way. So Sheila,

thanks for coming in to talk about tone. So excited. Thank you for having me back. I'm very

flattered. I love it. Yay.

Now before we get into our topic of tone, Sheila has agreed to participate in our, we talk about our

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