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 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.

Hey, welcome back. that you are not alone on this journey.

Hey, welcome back. Glad you guys could be here with us today.

We're going to be talking about perfectionism

and how that impacts your writing and your life, which, you know, I actually had a very anxious

morning preparing for this talk because I wanted to do it perfectly.

Yes, I had a similar thing so I did a a bunch, I googled a bunch of stuff and I found an article about perfectionism

from psychology today and it starts out by saying perfectionism is a trait that makes life an endless report card on accomplishments.

And I was like, ah, I hope I get, I hope I get them all right.

Like I hope I can accomplish this.

So it's been a very triggering thing to think about and

and as Lori and I had to text each other already and call each other because we were like oh my god we're so anxious about talking about

perfectionism.

I can't even work.

I can't work.

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