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The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

228 | The Screenwriting Life: Joy, Pain, & Legacy (TSL 2024 Supercut, Pt. 1)

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

Meg LeFauve & Lorien McKenna

Tv & Film

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 26 December 2024

⏱️ 119 minutes

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Summary

JOIN TSL WORKSHOPS: https://tslworkshops.circle.so At the end of every episode, we ask our guests the Three Big Questions: What brings you the most joy when it comes to writing? What pisses you off about writing? What advice would you give to your younger self? Today's supercut captures the heartfelt answers from TSL guests over the past year. Part 2, coming soon! 1:04 - Charlotte Stoudt (Ep 164) 7:24 - Tom McCarthy (Ep 169) 12:24 - Adam Grant (Ep 171) 22:45 - Jodie Foster (Ep 174) 28:00 - Michael Arndt (Ep 176) 31:00 - Celine Song (Ep 177) 37:54 - David Heminsgon (Ep 178) 42:15 - Elizabeth Hargrave (Ep 180) 46:50 - Lloyd Taylor (Ep 181) 50:25 - Dave Mullins, Brad Booker, & Sean Ono Lennon (Ep 182) 1:06:22 - Jennifer Deaton (Ep 184) 1:14:32 - Cole Haddon (Ep 185) 1:19:30 - Jeff Melvoin (Ep 186) 1:23:00 - Debby Wolfe (Ep 187) 1:26:20 - Octavio Solis (Ep 188) 1:34:27 - Carole Kirschner (Ep 189) 1:39:26 - Navid McIlhargey (Ep 190) 1:43:50 - Linda Seger (Ep 191) 1:49:23 - Billy Mernit (Ep 194)

Transcript

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0:00.0

Hey, TSLers, producer Jeff Graham here, and I hope you are having a wonderful, restful holiday with people you love.

0:11.0

If you're a long-time fan of the show, you know that we sometimes release supercut compilations of our guests.

0:17.0

And our tradition lately has been to take those final three questions we always ask and compile them into a supercut.

0:23.6

What I love about these episodes is kind of like a concentrated adrenaline shot of amazing advice from brilliant professionals.

0:29.6

So this is one of two super cuts that we'll be releasing.

0:33.6

We haven't done these in a while, so we have a pretty exciting backlog of incredible advice from our guests.

0:39.3

If you are wondering who is speaking, I have time-coded the guests in the description below, so just refer to that, and you can figure out who is being interviewed and what episode they originally came from.

0:49.3

But for now, just sit back, relax, and enjoy this brilliant wisdom.

0:53.3

Before we jump in, I do want to thank our interns, Claude Dean and Mickey, who did the hard work of compiling all of these clips for me.

1:00.0

Thank you to both of you. You did a wonderful job this semester.

1:03.0

And without further ado, enjoy this compilation.

1:05.0

What brings you the most joy when it comes to writing?

1:09.0

Or show opening. joy when it comes to writing. Yes.

1:11.6

No, it's really gorgeous.

1:12.7

I would say one other writers, which I've already spoken about, but I think anytime

1:18.4

you're writing a scene and your unconscious gives you with an idea or a line or a turn or

1:27.4

something.

1:27.8

I love that too.

1:29.6

Thank you unconscious for helping me out.

1:33.7

Sometimes it's just dead quiet for days, you know, but the few times where you go,

1:38.3

oh, and it almost doesn't feel like it's coming from you, you know, you just feel like the

1:43.5

universe is like,

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