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 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.

Hey guys, welcome to today's show. So glad you could be here with us today. are not giving giving up giving up and the which we think is a really important thing to talk about right now.

But before we talk about hope, we're going to talk about our week and what we like to call

Adventures in Screenwriting.

Lorian, how was your week?

My week was good.

I think we haven't done the show for a couple of weeks,

so I'm going to talk about the last two weeks.

I have really good couple of weeks. I have, you know, as usual, I had some generals.

It's always interesting to me, the meeting that I think like went the best is the one that I don't hear back from.

Like, my ability. is the one that I don't hear back from.

Like my ability to gauge amazing and mediocre

somehow got off somewhere.

I think part of it might be Zoom, you know, the Zoom of it.

But I had a couple really great ones, made great connections with producers,

and I'm working on some projects.

I got really inspired by one of them and I sat down in like a day or two and

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