Hey everyone. Welcome back to the screen writing life. I'm Lorian McKenna.

Meg is not joining us today because she's out of town. But we are really excited to talk to writer and director Corre Jefferson, whose

movie American Fiction is out right now. But before we do that, we're going to do Adventures

and Screenwriting life with me and Jeff. So this week I have a

deadline, I have a script to do in a couple of days, so I'm working on that and I'm

working on an adaptation, so I'm working on that.

I'm going to run hopefully, and I'm getting ready to prepare a pitch

that I'm going to take out that was, we didn't get to take out because of the strike.

So I'm really excited about that.

And I love the show, and I can't wait for it to be on the air.

So my strategy around the show I'm taking out

is that I am hoping to meet someone who loves it as much as I do.

I'm not trying to sell it.

I just want to find somebody who wants to make it as much as I do.

So that frame of fine is helping me, that's what I'm looking for. So when I go into

pitches and meetings, I'm going to be like, yeah, you love it as much as I do, let's do it.

And if they don't, then okay, I don't, they're not the right person for the project.

So I will find that, and then I will keep everybody up to date on my journey with this project

as we go forward.

The other thing that I sort of encountered and was really interested in as it relates to screen writing broader.

I found this book I really love and it's very popular and it's a whole series and you know it's out there I think

somebody has the TV rights already and they're going to turn it into a TV show but I looked at

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