278 | The Screenwriting Life: Joy, Frustration, Advice & Pride (TSL 2025 Supercut)
The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna
Meg LeFauve & Lorien McKenna
4.9 • 1.1K Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2026
⏱️ 98 minutes
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| 0:32.2 | Hello and welcome to the screenwriting life. |
| 0:36.9 | Today we're sharing a new supercut of our guests answering the big three questions that we ask on this show. |
| 0:38.3 | What brings you joy in your writing? |
| 0:40.4 | What pisses you off in your writing? |
| 0:42.5 | And if you could have coffee with your younger self, what advice would you give them? |
| 0:47.0 | These answers come from the last 50 plus episodes. |
| 0:50.1 | Let's dive in. |
| 0:53.0 | I think it's all, and it's all kind of the same answer, whenever something comes alive |
| 0:59.0 | where it doesn't feel like it's coming from me, that gives me the most joy. |
| 1:04.0 | Whether it's writing something and I really feel like the characters are talking to each other, |
| 1:08.0 | or that character just did something that I never expected them to do |
| 1:11.6 | or in directing when you're when you're you've thought about a scene 500 ways and then an actor |
| 1:19.3 | steps in or your DP steps in and asks one question that totally blows your mind and makes |
| 1:25.7 | you think about it in a completely different way, |
| 1:34.5 | that I feel, then I feel like the artistic process is alive and is, and something other than me is guiding it, that brings me the most joy. What pisses me off about it, but is also |
| 1:40.8 | simultaneous, it's a paradox because it's also simultaneously the thing where it gives me great hope because I feel like I can do it forever and all of us can do it until the day we die. |
| 1:49.7 | But it's that it does piss me off every time I start a new script because every, I've been writing now for, I'm writing screenplays for 15 years actively. |
| 1:59.1 | I've been writing now since I was 15, so longer than that. |
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