Hey everyone, welcome back to the screenwriting life. I'm Lorian McKenna.

Meg's out of town this week, so it's just going to be me and Jeff today.

And today we're going to talk about something we haven't covered a lot on the show yet, which is

writing for kids.

I'm very excited about it. As you all know

Lorian show ran a kids TV show and is Emmy nominated for it so I'm super

excited to ask you some questions Lorian thanks for being our interviewee today I don't get

you're not gonna read my bio I know yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah

yeah it's on the website if you guys want to see lorian no no I'm kidding

I'm kidding but before we talk to lraine, we're going to be talking about our weeks or what we like to call

Adventures in Screenwriting.

Lorian, how is your week?

Well, it was really good because right before we started recording this I actually figured out the hook on the pilot I've been struggling with a week like I had this sort of idea of what it was going to be like and what it was but I couldn't figure out how it could be special or different or what the hook was and I so I've been thinking like well what has worked for me before in the past and because instead of trying to figure out some new way to do things, I'm always trying to figure out what's worked for me in the past, right?

Like, for example, I'm not going to all of a sudden one day, wake up every morning at six and exercise and then eat healthy and become

this version of myself that I've never ever successfully been and then suddenly be able to accomplish

all these amazing things it's more like, what has worked for me before as I am, right?

So sort of embracing like, this is the writer I am, this is the person I am.

So before, a lot of my projects come out of rage, angry writing.

And, but I can't, like I'm mad about a lot of things all the time,

but I couldn't really tap into specifically

how rage or being mad about something or wound up about something connected to this project.

So I've been doing what I do what's worked before a time.

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