Hey everyone welcome back to the screen writing life. I'm Meg Lafour.

And I'm Lorian McKenna and today we are thrilled to welcome writer and showrunner Dave Holstein to the show.

I'm excited to talk to Megan Dave about co-writing Inside Out 2 and then we will chat more

with Dave about his TV career as a showrunner and writer.

Yes, Dave is known for his work on groundbreaking half hour TV dramedies like

Weeds, The Brink, and Kitting, starring Jim Carrey, which Dave created and show ran.

Kitting was nominated for two Golden Globe Awards,

including Best Comedy Series.

So welcome to the show.

Welcome to the show.

It's so nice to be here.

So we're excited to chat, but first we're going to talk about our weeks or what we like to call

adventures and screenwriting, and as usual, I'll go first. So I have as always been

struggling to generate pages. I don't know what's happening. So, you know, I ask myself all those questions. What do I want? Why do I want it? What's my plan? And I realize that what I'm not having is stakes. So I worked on a deal with my manager that if I don't deliver pages every

Friday, I have to donate money to something that I find reprehensible. So, and I told my family and they were like horrified so we now have the whole

family the whole family is in on it right give mama space to write don't come in her office, and I told Meg and everyone on TSL,

so like when I say I'm writing.

We were equally horrified that you would ever give money to that.

So, yeah, so, so I've let everyone in my community know that like when I say I'm writing I have to be writing.

So that is helping a lot and it's more than just accountability in terms of like the shame of not meeting a deadline, you know, to a manager or something. It's real for me. So I am, I am cooking. I am writing.

I sat down this morning. I wrote 11 pages, I'm super excited, so I just keep that momentum going and

write a script in the next three days.

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