Hey everyone, welcome back to the screenwriting life.

I'm Meg Lofo.

And I'm Lorian McKenna.

Meg, what are we talking about today?

Today's a topic show.

We're going to be talking about I've got a barf draft.

Now what?

So we're going to kind of take you through.

You've quote unquote puked out your idea into 120, 130, 150 pages, however long it is.

Or it could be 80, right?

We don't know.

It could be however long it is, but you got all the way to the end, which if you haven't,

you don't actually have a puke draft, by the way, you have something else. So this is assuming you've

gotten all the way to the end of your first messy, horrible, wonderful draft. And now you're

looking at it and thinking, okay, now what do I do with this horrible, lumpy thing that doesn't work,

which is very normal.

So we're going to go through, and we're incorporating in here some questions that you guys have

asked us, both in our workshops as well as just on our Gmail, where you can go and ask us

questions.

And of course, this is assuming that you've taken

an idea and written out to the three acts of something. But we get a lot of questions about you

have an idea and how do you make it into a full story? Because a barf draft doesn't necessarily

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