Hey, welcome to the screenwriting life. I'm Meg Lafour. And I'm Lorraine 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. All right, welcome back, you guys glad you could be with us here today on the screenwriting

life.

You know, if you're listening to us as you're accused not to write, not to write. Welcome. Our topic today is making excuses. You know what

we tell ourselves to justify not writing, not committing, not pushing forward through the hard parts

or the big part like being a writer at all right

sometimes

okay but first let's get to our week or what we call adventures in screenwriting.

Lorian, how was your week?

My week has been amazing as a writer. On Monday I laid down an outline for a new project and on Tuesday I did the

barf draft and I have what's that? Barf draft yay! Barf, I puked it all out.

And, you know, it was too long, it was messy,

parts didn't make sense, but I've been spending

like every minute I have available

for the rest of the week trying to turn it into a first

draft and what's happening is I've become obsessed so I am jealous of any time I'm

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