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

and I'm Lorian McKenna and today we're thrilled to welcome Andrew Zenis to the show.

Andrew is a professor and lecturer at the University of Portsmouth UK,

building on a long career and development under heavy hitters like Norman Lear.

He recently co-authored the book's screenwriter's advice.

Andrew interviewed me for the book but I'm just one of the many pros featured so we wanted to

discuss some of the other highlights from the book by doing something we don't normally do on our show

Andrew will be interviewing us with some of the questions that he asked in his book and of course we're going to talk about the book too.

But before we get to that interview of us, which is like, I don't know, best podcast I think we've ever done, right? Hey, come on our show and ask us questions.

All right, so Andrew, welcome to the show.

Hi everybody, thank you for having me. It's great. All right, so Andrew, welcome to the show.

Hi, everybody, thank you for having me.

It's great to be here, a big fan, first-time caller.

It's gonna be fun.

Welcome, but before we get into the interview, we're going to be talking about our weeks or as we like to call it adventures and screenwriting.

So I'll start.

This week I set myself a deadline to deliver a script by Friday and I gave myself really big stakes so that I met that deadline. They were personal stakes and world stakes and it worked and I delivered pages.

All right. Yay! And so I set myself a new deadline this week. And what I learned though is that the deadline I set with to, the

deadline was reasonable, but what I could actually accomplish was a little outside what I could. So I sent what I had. So this week I have had to pull

back and be a little bit more realistic about the hours I actually have in my week,

where I am in my process,

and all the many things I have to do.

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