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 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. Hey TSL fan, producer Jeff here and we are thrilled to close out the year with a live panel that we did at the Austin Film Festival earlier this year.

The panel features Meg and writer director Joe Forte. Joe is known for among

other work writing the Harrison Ford movie Firewall and directing the documentary

The Man Who Save Ben Her. And like, Joe's just a brilliant kind of story

consultant and diagnostician, if you will. So this panel was incredible. As

always, I feel like they might as well have been talking about my own work as they were sort of breaking down the ideas of randomly selected folks from the crowd, but I'm just such a fan of this format and I hope you all are too.

If you like today's episode, I would encourage you to check out our other live Austin Film Festival workshop

that you can find kind of buried in the feed from last year, but I would even more

highly encourage you to consider joining our Patreon. We do these types of story workshops.

We try to do them every couple of months. But if you join our Patreon, you get to attend these workshops live,

you'll be eligible to be selected in the same way that the listeners in today's

audience were, and there's also a backlog of like up to 10 other story workshops that we did like this.

I just think the Patreon is a really cool way to

deepen the TSL experience and even interact with Meg and Lori and

and other TSL community members to remind you that you are not alone. So

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