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The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

162 | Screenwriting: Joy, Pain, Legacy (2023 Guest Supercut Pt. 1)

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

Meg LeFauve & Lorien McKenna

Tv & Film

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 2 November 2023

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

In our time time-honored tradition of asking the same three questions at the end of every show, we wanted to put together a supercut of some great guest responses to be enjoyed in one fell swoop. Part two coming Monday! Featured in today's supercut: - Matt Lieberman - Monique N. Matthews - Sean Presant - Stacy Rukeyser - Sam Bain - Nicole Perlman - Stephen Karam - Anna Drezen - Jenny Lumet and Alex Kurtzman - David F.M. Vaughn - Dan O'Shannon - Jen Grisanti - Patrick Osborne JOIN OUR PATREON: www.patreon.com/thescreenwritinglife

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0:00.0

Hey TSL fam, producer Jeff here coming off a wonderful AFF where I had such a great time meeting so many of you.

0:10.5

But because of AFF and just some other busyness in our lives

0:13.6

where I playing catch-up on production so we have a really really wonderful

0:16.7

super cut this week. We did something similar to this in 2021 where we ask

0:20.4

our guests the same three questions at the end of every show.

0:23.9

So very exciting, we're actually going to be releasing two episodes this week.

0:27.6

This is part one of our supercut wherein we ask our guests the same three questions

0:32.0

to kind of hear what they can illuminate with

0:34.1

their answers. So in terms of the guests you'll be hearing today just for the sake

0:37.9

of ease and having the list as a reference, I did include the names of all of the

0:42.0

guests who spoke on the supercut in the description

0:44.6

below so you can check it out there but in the meantime enjoy today's episode and make sure you stay

0:48.8

tuned because we will be releasing a part two with more of these responses on Monday.

0:54.8

The first question we ask is what brings you the most joy when it comes to writing?

1:01.0

Um, definitely the first draft of definitely the first draft not necessarily of an original idea but I definitely was working on another spec that I sold. I was, I turned in the first draft, I was talking to my manager about it, he was giving me notes and he said something that I'll never, he's like, isn't this great? It's just us doing this. And you know, you don't have like BS studio notes and I it's just

1:27.7

And it's true that's the fun like if you feel you're making something we're making something we're making something we making something, we're putting on a show, it's all a piece of paper or a digital file, but still we're doing it. So yeah, and also coming up with the Eureka idea.

1:42.9

Like that feels great.

1:45.0

And you get so excited, you just want to leave the dinner

1:48.4

you're at and go sit down and shot it down.

1:51.6

Awesome. That's the joy.

1:53.1

I love that.

1:53.7

Right.

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