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The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

248 | Working Writers Ask Us Questions: An Industry Mailbag

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

Meg LeFauve & Lorien McKenna

Tv & Film

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 8 May 2025

⏱️ 67 minutes

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JOIN TSL WORKSHOPS: https://tslworkshops.circle.sol In this special edition of our mailbag series, we’re flipping the script. Instead of questions from newcomers, today we hear from working, professional screenwriters—people already inside the industry, navigating the real-world challenges of a creative career. From handling difficult notes to sustaining momentum between jobs, Meg and Lorien dig into what it means to grow and survive as a writer at the professional level. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Hey everyone, welcome back to the screenwriting life. I'm Lorian McKenna.

0:38.0

And I'm Meglophove and today we are going to be answering questions that have been submitted by professional writers. Yes, even pros have questions. Well, I mean, I have questions every day. Like, what is writing? What is writing? What is words? Before we get into that, we're going to talk about our

0:54.5

weeks, or what we like to call adventures in screenwriting, and I'll go first. So two things

0:59.7

happened this week that I find interesting. I mean, I find them fascinating because they're about me,

1:05.3

right? I have been working on a pitch, and I have gone down many iterations of it and I did the thing

1:14.5

that I always do and I wish I could catch this earlier is that I went all the way back to the

1:19.5

original idea I had before I second guessed myself into I don't even know what happened to it.

1:25.8

It started out is this very simple premise that made sense.

1:29.9

It was good, I loved it, and then I just started over-complicating it instead of digging

1:36.9

into what it was.

1:38.2

I was trying to find all the reasons it didn't work and trying to fix those up and it became

1:42.6

like this Franken thing.

1:45.0

And I sort of lost, it got really hard and I wasn't having fun anymore.

1:50.0

And then I was like, wait a minute, what was I working on four weeks ago?

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