Hey everyone welcome back to the screenwriting life. I'm Meg Lefove and I'm

Larian McKenna and today we are thrilled to be joined by award-winning writer

director Kelly Freeman Craig.

Kelly is the award winning writer and director of two feature films The Edge of 17

starring Haley Steinfeld and Are You There God?

It's Me Margaret which will be released in theaters tomorrow.

Kelly's work is celebrated for its unflinching depiction of teenage girlhood

which the New York Times calls smart and achingly bittersweet.

Kelly, welcome to the show!

Oh my God, thank you guys so much for having me.

I'm so, I'm so happy to be here.

Well, we are thrilled to have you here.

We are all huge fans.

We've got a chance to see your movie that's coming out

and we're all just slightly gobsmacked

and thrilled that you're here to talk about it.

But before we do, Kelly has agreed to do what we call Adventures in Screenwriting, which is just talk about our weeks, let people peek

behind the curtain a little bit. Sometimes it's quite mundane. Lorian, how was your week?

My week was good.

I had a good week this week.

I've been very busy.

I wrote like an animated short for a company and it's short it's like eight pages long I think and as I

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