Hey everyone. Welcome back to the screenwriting life. I'm Meg Lafour.

And I'm L'Orian McKenna and today we're going to be talking about the movies that turned us into writers or the movies that inspired us to believe that we could be writers.

We're going to be talking about the stories behind watching the movies we loved and why specifically

they inspired us to pursue a career in writing or unspecificly. And but first we're going to talk about our weeks

or what we like to call Adventures in Screenwriting.

Lorian, how was your week?

My week was very exciting and exhausting. My daughter was in a play this last weekend.

All month, she went to this month-long summer camp that was putting on a play and rehearsals all day.

And it was eight hours.

She was there and it was really hard for me

because it's the first time she's been in an environment

where she didn't have a nurse for her type one.

And I got there the first day and I have all her kits.

And there's a woman there.

She's like, oh, I'm a T1D mom.

I have two kids with T1D.

So immediately I felt like, ah, okay.

So she's safe.

She managed herself really well, and I felt very proud of her.

And then this weekend, they put on Bye-By Birdie.

It was middle schoolers doing bye-bye Birdie,

and you know, the play has its things but Quincy loved every second of it and they had four performances and I am absolutely exhausted because of the she didn't want to wear her pump during the shows and I'm like backstage and you know it it's and you know I'm a theater person and so I really didn't want to push her into this and she sort of came at it by herself and she wants to do the next show and the next show. And so I feel excited that she's going to do this thing that I love, but at the same time, you know, she's going to do this thing that I love. So I know what it then you know there's a lot of heartbreak in it but it's also so fun so that was really fun and then in terms of writing I am not writing and I am currently in the middle of an existential crisis about my career as one does during a strike and I am struggling to figure out what is sustainable for myself and that sort of what is my big want right we

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