Hey everyone, welcome back to the show. I'm Meg Lafour. And I'm L'Orienne McKenna. And

today we're going to be doing one of our favorite things answering your questions on the show. We pulled these questions from two

places, our Facebook group and our email. So if you have questions for our next

Q&A please send them to our email at the screenwriting life at gmail.com.

Our Facebook group is a great place to find more communities.

So if you haven't joined, we'd love to see you over there.

And check out our Patreon where Loring and I host workshops once or twice a month.

In addition, we are super excited to let everyone know that we will be hosting our annual TSL party at the Austin Film Festival this year.

This year we are partnering with Final Draft and there's going to be swag and giveaways and

us hanging out with you and all your fellow writers so we hope to see you there.

Yay! Oh, yay! Sorry.

Yeah.

But now let's talk about our weeks or what we like to call Adventures in Screenwriting.

Lorian, how was your week?

I mean a startling change of pace.

I had a pretty good week.

Dun-d-d-dada! So on Monday I did a workshop for some writer friends and it was really great and at the end of it it was sort of like we wanted to keep writing together and at the end of every workshop I always get asked like how do I continue this like how do I take all this discovery writing that I did and actually turn it into a script?

And my answer is, you know, I have all kinds of answers and strategies, but you know, the answer is right, something try anything but at the end of it we decided that we would

continue to meet so one of the women in the group put together like a library's hour twice a week and I showed up on I think it was

Wednesday and I wrote for my two and a half hours and I wrote a half of a play that

I've been half rattling around in my head and I've never sat down to do.

And it was great. Yesterday I started writing poetry and I have something I haven't done in a really, really long time. But what was really great about it is, you know, in screenwriting and TV writing, there are so many rules that can feel like you can get really burdened by them and really sort of overwhelmed by the rules and the expectations and how things should be.

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