Hey everyone, welcome back to the screenwriting life. I'm Lori and McKenna. And today I'm going to be

chatting with two writers, Danica and Emily, about their experience as members of our community,

TSL workshops. Every month, we host two workshops for a member community. One is a Q&A where Meg and I

answer any and all of your questions about screenwriting and the business. And we also have our story workshop where

members are selected to pitch their story ideas. Some are in the synopsis stage, some are scripts

in their 10th draft, and most are somewhere in between. We hear feature ideas, TV show ideas,

and we provide constructive feedback that we hope can bring our members to the next level with

their stories and their writing.

Danica and Emily both pitched us their stories when they were at specific points of their

processes. And I'm going to talk to them about when they pitched, what they pitched, what

key insight they might have taken from our notes, and where they are now with their scripts.

But first, writer bios. Danica Waldo is an

award-winning writer, director, and producer based in New York City. After starting her career as an

actor, she went on to direct and produce narrative shorts for the Apples New York YouTube channel,

which has 1.6 million subscribers and over 1 billion views. She later served as director of production

at Lit Video Books, directing all live action content

while overseeing production and post.

Her debut short film, Sally Get the Potatoes,

has won 28 awards at over 40 festivals worldwide.

As a storyteller, she loves to explore family secrets

and intergenerational relationships

often incorporating a child's point of view. Emily Robertson grew up in Arkansas, and she spent

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