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

And I'm Lorian McKenna and today we're going to do a mailbag episode.

Meg and I will answer some questions that we've been we're going to do a mail bag episode.

Meg and I will answer some questions

that we've been collecting on our Facebook page

and that have come in to our email.

But before we jump into our Q&A,

we're going to be talking about our weeks or what we like to call

Adventures in screenwriting so Lorian how was your week? This week I wrote a

pilot a you know 15 page 11 minute animation pilot for preschool and why I gave myself

this assignment was because I wanted to.

I thought it would be fun.

It's short, right?

Not that many pages, which when I'm trying

to get back into the writing and sort of get out of the,

I'm writing a feature animation treatment.

So I was like, I'm just going to write a 15 page

animated show.

And what I worked really hard to do was not overcomplicate it,

not overthink it.

I came up with a very simple premise, a very simple format. This is how it begins, this is what the middle is, this is how it ends, and I just did it, which is the challenge for me, right? Because I'll spend a lot of time, like,

well, that's not enough and this, and not to say

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