20 | Importance of PLAY In Your Writing (And Life)

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

Meg LeFauve & Lorien McKenna

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 1 November 2020

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Remember when you wanted to be a writer because it was FUN? It seems like an obvious point, but so many of us have lost our ability to enjoy the FUN of writing, which is why we got into it in the first place! Enter: PLAY. Maybe it's exercises with your characters, maybe it's a no-holds barred workshop with your writer's group, or maybe it's FINALLY signing up for that improv class (or that sculpture class - cough, cough, MEG) that you've been eying for weeks. Let go, and have some FUN today!

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome to the screenwriting life. I'm Meg Lafour. And I'm Lorraine McKenna. We are
0:05.2	professional screenwriters. We've worked together as a team and separately. We've worked
0:09.1	on studio and indie films, live action and animation. from my work on Inside Out and
0:13.8	Captain Marvel. To my work in Pixar Story Department on Up, Brave, and Inside Out.
0:17.9	We are here to share our insights on the craft of screenwriting and also the lights
0:23.0	had to not only survive the ups and downs but thrive.
0:26.0	We want to help you become the best screenwriter you can be
0:29.0	and to reassure you that you are not alone on this journey.
0:32.0	All right, glad you guys. that you are not alone on this journey.
0:36.5	All right, glad you guys could all be here today with us. You took the time, the break in your hectic days.
0:40.1	I know I for one have been overwhelmed with all the stuff I have to do.
0:45.0	Totally, me too.
0:46.6	Our topic today is play.
0:49.7	What is it?
0:50.7	How do you do it?
0:51.7	How can it help? Yeah, like play in do it, how can it help?
0:53.2	Yeah, like play in your writing, you know, like,
0:55.9	I'm getting overwhelmed with all the half-tos and shoulds
0:58.6	and in terms of my writing, and I just need to remember to play because isn't this supposed to be fun?
1:05.0	Oh, oh right, that's right.
1:07.0	Right.
1:08.0	Guys, we're writers.
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