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,

how to not only survive 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.

Hi you guys, thanks for being with us today.

We hope that we are your people because you are ours, you are our peeps, our squad,

committed, we're all committed to each other.

And that's our topic for today.

Finding your people.

So we're going to talk about what does that mean?

How do you find them?

What do you do once you found them?

And what that means in your script for your, for your, I think we can take that all the way to

when you're a writer and who's your character's people what does that mean yeah

but first let's get to our week and what we call Adventures in screenwriting

Lorian how is your week? My week was good.

Let's see, so last week I talked about putting together a script and this week I sent it out for notes to a few trusted readers and I'm starting to get some notes back and what's great is that the notes are really consistent and I don't mean like the same

notes I mean that everybody's poking at the same

areas of the script. So the notes on like what's wrong or what a solution might be

are totally different but the focus is all on those scenes so that that sort of is

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