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 lights,

had to not only survive the ups and downs, but thrive.

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

and to reassure you that you are not alone on this journey. Hi everyone, welcome back to the screenwriting life.

I have been especially excited to talk about our topic today.

It's a topic that I'm going to call, and I made up called Pick a Pony.

We are going to be focusing on specific elements

in our writing when we revise and being able to narrow our focus on to those so that we can be honed

in on what the rewrite purpose is. Is that right Meg? Close enough.

Close enough. Why don't you say what it is? No, that's totally right. I'm just teasing. No, I'm just teasing. You have to get

disciplined when you're going to rewrite. That's what I'm going to talk about. You got to pick your pony. You can't jump off halfway through the race and go on to a different pony.

Okay, so but first we're going to be talking about our weeks or what we like to call

Adventures in Screenwriting Lorian, how was your Emmy week?

It was so awesome that I, I mean getting nominated for an Emmy is like kind of surreal and really, really cool.

And but it didn't really sink in to what it was until it was like the day of and I like got my

hair done with my daughter. She got her hair done, we got our makeup done.

It was very cute, you know, you wear a fancy dress that I got from Rent the Runway by the way because,

you know, let's be realistic about buying a really fancy dress and then never wearing it again.

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