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The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

254 | "I'm Stuck": What to Do When the Writing Just Isn't Working

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

Meg LeFauve & Lorien McKenna

Tv & Film

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2025

⏱️ 64 minutes

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Summary

In this episode, Meg gets real about where she’s at in her writing process — the doubts, the stalls, and the honest truth of feeling stuck. We answer listener questions about momentum, mindset, and the tough question of when it’s time to move on from a project that just isn’t working. Whether you're in a rut or wrestling with a story that won’t cooperate, this one’s for you. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

I made you think you was real.

0:02.0

My name is Caden Sinclair.

0:04.0

Some people call us American royalty.

0:06.0

We were liars.

0:07.0

A new series on Prime Video.

0:09.0

We were happy. We wanted for nothing.

0:12.0

Based on the best-selling novel.

0:15.0

Something terrible happened last summer,

0:17.0

and I have no memory of what or who hurt me.

0:20.0

No one in my family will tell me.

0:22.7

When you're left for dead, you want answers. We were liars. New series, watch now, only on

0:28.9

Prime Video.

0:33.8

Hey everyone. Welcome back to the screenwriting life. I'm Meg LaFoev. And I'm Lorraine McKenna. And today we're digging into a

0:40.5

frustrating and often unacknowledged and unspoken part of the process. When it just isn't working, won't work,

0:49.0

doesn't work again. So this is the side of screenwriting people really don't talk about enough.

0:54.9

You know, kind of when the magic's gone missing, the rewrite isn't working at all,

0:59.1

no matter how much work you did to get prepared for that rewrite or the feedback seems like

1:03.4

it's knocking your story off course.

1:05.4

So we're going to get into all of that.

1:07.4

But first we're going to do Adventures in Screenwriting, where we talk about our weeks.

1:11.9

Lorian, how was your week?

1:13.5

My week was good.

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