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The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

14 | Outlining/Chunking In Your Writing

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

Meg LeFauve & Lorien McKenna

Tv & Film

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 27 June 2020

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

One of the secrets to great storytelling is great outlining, and today we discuss just that! Elizabeth Gilbert’s Ted Talk On “Genius”: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=86x-u-tz0MA&t=756s Michael Arendt’s Views on Structure: http://www.pandemoniuminc.com/ts3-mistakes-made-lessons-learned?fbclid=IwAR3rGuN5m7bVO6QH2ONca7bfaKr9WecD_iSH3yDH33Bhn-LzARNxAF0aJmc #PopcornTalk #ScreenwritingLife #Outlining We've talked a lot about chunking and outlining on this show, and now, we finally get into the dirty details! Get those index cards ready! @StoryMeg @LorienMcKenna #JeffreyCGraham - http://youtube.com/popcorntalknetwork HELPFUL LINKS: Website - http://popcorntalk.com Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/thepopcorntalk Merch - http://shop.spreadshirt.com/PopcornTalk/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to Popcorn Talk featuring movie discussion news and interviews

0:04.9

Popcorn Talk We Talk movies

0:09.7

Hey you guys welcome to today's show. It's so good talking with you. I've missed

0:15.5

Lorian. I've missed Jeff. Everybody here we are all back together. You know the

0:21.8

last the past few weeks we've taken the time off to do our own personal work around the Black Lives Matter movement with the first and last step being listening

0:35.8

We've also been reading, protesting and giving financially, you know, it's a really big essential topic. We plan to

0:39.9

continue the work and find ways to help make real change,

0:44.2

specifically in our industry,

0:46.3

such as a possible mentor program

0:48.5

that I'm gonna try to put together.

0:50.9

And I wanna thank my friend Willie Hagen who has been helping me put that together.

0:55.0

I can't talk more about it right now because we're still doing it, still trying to get it together,

1:00.0

but as soon as we do that, I will of course talk to you guys about it here and make it available to you guys.

1:05.7

So also, of course, any questions, ideas, or ways we can help on your journey, especially people of color.

1:13.2

Please remember to reach out to us on Facebook and our email address.

1:17.3

If we don't have the answer, we will find it.

1:20.8

Yes, yeah. Yeah, I've really missed everyone and what Meg said and it's really great to be back and today we're going to be talking about outlining or chunking which we discussed, but not covered in length.

1:34.0

So we're really excited about that.

1:36.0

Yeah, so we had some questions.

1:37.0

People came in and asked us to talk more about that.

1:39.0

So, you know, we're here to answer your questions, so we will.

1:42.0

But before our topic, we're going to talk about our week or what we like to call adventures in screen writing.

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