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The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

236 | Liz Feldman (Dead To Me, No Good Deed): Writing is Self-Destruction, Self-Reflection, and Self-Correction

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

Meg LeFauve & Lorien McKenna

Tv & Film

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 6 February 2025

⏱️ 61 minutes

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JOIN TSL WORKSHOPS: https://tslworkshops.circle.so What sounds harder? Writing a pilot alone at your desk, or running your own TV show with 300 folks trying to execute your vision? For Liz Feldman, it's the former, which affirms what we often say on this show: writing is really, really hard. Despite that, Liz has almost 30 years of TV writing experience under her belt, including two hits for Netflix that she created and showran: Dead To Me and No Good Deed. Join us as she unpacks her creative process.

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0:00.0

Hey, everyone. Welcome back to the screenwriting life. I'm Lorian McKenna. And today, I am thrilled to talk to Liz Feldman, who has a very impressive career as a writer, showrunner, director, and actor. Yes. Yes. sure. Okay, right.

0:23.1

Comedian, kind of, yeah.

0:25.1

It's all sort of in retirement anyway.

0:33.0

So Liz created and ran dead to me, as well as the new Netflix show, No Good Deed, which follows a couple looking to sell their house, the competitive buyers hoping

0:37.1

to get it,

0:37.8

and the secrets that tie them all together. Welcome to the show, Liz.

0:41.7

Thank you so much, Lorian. Really appreciate it. Yay. So before we get into the part where I

0:47.8

ask you all the questions, we're going to do what we like to call Adventures in Screenwriting,

0:52.2

where we talk about our week. So I will start.

0:55.6

So I delivered a script on Sunday, which I was very excited about. Well, that's huge.

1:01.0

Congrats. I got notes this morning, which I haven't looked at yet. So that's pretty good for it.

1:06.2

That's a pretty fast turnaround, actually. It's reps. Oh, it's reps. Yeah, they sort of have to do that.

1:10.7

But even so it was big to like send. And's reps, no. Oh, it's reps. Yeah, they sort of have to do that.

1:11.6

But even so it was big to like send.

1:13.6

And of course, then I read the first page and guess what I found?

1:16.6

A typo.

1:18.6

Oh, God.

1:20.6

Oh, cue me not sleeping for at least like three nights.

1:25.6

Yeah, and it was like one of those, uh, there,

1:28.7

there are there. Oh, come on. And so it was like, I almost can forgive those because so much of

1:37.0

that is just sort of like some conscious stream of thought, you know, your, your, your hands and your

1:42.5

brain not kind of lining up in the same grammatical correctness.

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