Hey, welcome to the screenwriting life. I'm Meg Lafour. And I'm L'Orian 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 a not only survived 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, welcome to the screenwriting life. I'm Meg Lafov.

And I'm L'Orian McKenna.

On today's show, we're going to talk about turning your idea

and getting it to the page page and we'll be answering some

fan questions but first we're gonna talk about our weeks which we're calling

our adventures and screen writing. Meg? All right I'll go first. My week was I practiced the fine art of procrastination.

In other words fear but yeah it's high level of procrastination now because I looked really busy, right? But busy as in like somebody once said to me there's a Zen cone that business is a high form of laziness.

Kind of like, I look really busy when I'm procrastinating.

Like what does that look like?

How it manifests?

Well, I did have some work to do.

I had, I was writing back and forth with a director.

She's in Europe and we were writing back and forth.

But it's, it was, we're into the fine detail work, like, what is this line?

Let's do seven aults of this line to find. That's not my favorite part of writing.

I mean we all have parts that we love to do and parts that we're like,

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