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The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

296 | The ULTIMATE Adventures In Screenwriting

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

Meg LeFauve & Lorien McKenna

Tv & Film

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 30 April 2026

⏱️ 66 minutes

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Summary

This week we have an old school Meg and Lorien dive deep into the life and world of screenwriting. The day to day life stuff. The bucket of S*it stuff. The things that swirl in your head stuff. And the, "I still have to write" stuff. If you want to feel seen, heard, understood and connected to others and have a good laugh... this is the episode for you! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

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0:04.5

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0:05.7

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0:09.5

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0:14.8

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0:18.0

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0:19.7

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0:27.6

Here, everyone, welcome back to the screenwriting life. I'm Meg LaFoge. And I'm Lorian McKenna.

0:32.1

Thanks for being here. Today, we're doing the ultimate adventures in screenwriting, aka, how is

0:37.1

your week, aka, how is your life your week, aka how is your life?

0:39.6

Laurean, how's your life?

0:41.1

Today, it's a bucket of shit.

0:44.9

Well, sometimes it feels like it's a bucket of shit.

0:48.8

What I think about the bucket full of shit is it's taken me whatever many, many years, decades to realize, and I'm still

0:55.6

working on this, but, okay, I always am trying to fix the shit, get rid of the shit, do something

1:02.8

with the shit, and right now all I'm trying to do is be like, huh, there's a lot of shit. And how does

1:08.9

that make me feel? It makes me feel sad. It makes me disappointed. Okay. I'm not going to do anything about it. I'm sad and disappointed. And here's what's weird. And then it starts to move itself. You got to poop it out. No, it just starts to, you suddenly realize, oh, it's not shit, it's something else. Or no, it's not as bad as I thought. Or, no, it really is because I have to look at something. You know what I'm saying? Like, it's just starting to dawn on me. But I keep trying to fix it, manage it, order it. But in fact, first, it just is. That's what's happening. Yeah, there's a lot that is.

1:47.7

I think that's, I'm overwhelmed by all that it is.

1:48.7

All the is is.

1:49.3

All the is. All the is.

1:49.4

Like this is and that is and this is too.

1:51.9

And oh my God, that's new.

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