Hey, welcome back to the screenwriting life. I'm Meg Lafour. I'm L'Apho.

I'm Lorian McKenna and today we're thrilled to be joined by script consultant screenwriter and teacher Jill Chamberlain

Jill has consulted on projects for major studios Oscar nominated screenwriters top show runners and many

many spec writers she created the nutshell technique to give us a new way to talk

about structure in our screenplays. Her book on The Nutshell technique is

Emmanuel a lot of professionals use and is taught in film programs. Hi, Jill, welcome to the show.

Hi, thank you so much for having me.

It's an honor.

Yeah, we're really excited to dig in here

and give our writers, especially, not only,

but especially our emerging writers,

writers, some new tools for their toolbox.

I know that my son read your book in film school,

and he was like, mom, like I thought I knew, and I I kind of knew but then all of a sudden I could see it like I got it like so it's just

such a wonderful thing to like keep shining the light in different ways you know and

whoever you know I just really another way to help people see it and get it.

So we're really thrilled to have you here.

We're, but Jill, it's also, is game for doing adventures in screenwriting or what happened this week to us. So Lorian, how was your week?

It was good. I just like an hour ago came back from Sinistory TV retreat up in Ida Wild so I just drove down the hill and I have

such a great time at Sinistory. It's such a wonderful community of writers and mentors and producers and managers and it has

this wonderful feeling of like camp for grown-ups. We talk about story the whole time and it's sort of equalizing in this really lovely way like so many of the

writers that go there are have projects in production or have made things and so it's not

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