Hey, welcome to the screenwriting life. I'm Meg Lafour. And I'm Lorraine McKenna. We are professional screenwriters. We've worked together as a team and separately. We've worked on studio and indie films, live action and animation from my work on Inside Out and

Captain Marvel. To my work in Pixar Story Department on Up, Brave, and Inside Out.

We are here to share our insights on the craft of screenwriting and also the lights,

had to not only survive the ups and downs, but thrive.

We want to help you become the best screenwriter you can be

and to reassure you that you are not alone on this journey.

Hey guys, welcome back.

We're so glad you could be here with us,

listening to us, the voices in your head.

And that's our topic for today. Voices inside your head and outside your head.

So the question we're going to talk about is how do you maintain your creative integrity with all the voices coming at you.

Woo!

But first, of course, we're going to talk about our week

in what we call Adventures in Screenwriting.

How is your week, Ma'er?

Good, I think. Yeah, I had to spend some time prioritizing and reorganizing and sort of figuring out what my bigger goals are and how to get there with your

help with your help thank you so much yeah and it's really hard because I have so many ideas and as you know Meg as soon as I commit to one thing I have three other

brilliant ideas right? They are much better usually, right?

Your brain is like, oh my God, this is hard, so let's do this because this is easier.

Yeah, so I have three projects that I'm focusing on this week and I got a fair amount done on two of them

That's good so that feels good you know the usual Michigan of life gets in the way so as much as I

Here's my schedule. I'm going to two hours here, I'm going to take a break,

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