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 a not only survived the ups and downs, but thrives.

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 guys, glad you could be back.

Welcome, so glad to have you here.

Today we're going to talk about getting perspective on the story you're writing,

or what Lauren and I like to call going 30,000 feet, taking the 30,000 foot view.

And I'm really excited to talk about this today as this is something I actively work on and struggle with a little bit is that

zooming out thing not just in my writing but in my life.

All right, so but first first we're going to talk about our week or what we call

Adventures in Screenwriting.

Lori and how was your week?

I'm writing the struggle bus pretty hard this week.

Oh, the struggle bus.

And I know this week is hard for a lot of people right now.

It's really hard to focus with what's going on in the world.

I watched way too much news. I got

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