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 to not only survive the ups and downs, but thrive.

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 everyone, welcome back to the screenwriting life.

Today we're talking about the most important,

terrifying, and ultimately rewarding part

of our craft of writing, putting yourself out there.

You'll never get your stuff seen or read unless you put it out there.

So today we're going to talk about ways to do that and give you the encouragement you might need and also probably talking ourselves into it as well.

Oh yeah in a big way today. So but first we're going to go to our section about our week or what we like to call Adventures in screenwriting.

Lorian, how was your week?

My week was very busy, very good.

I delivered a new version of this script that we have been talking about for I don't know ever and I had

the usual experience of delivering a script I think which was oh I'm ready I'm delivering it I hit

send and then I texted you and I said I delivered it and you say congratulations and I was like oh my God it's probably

terrible it's probably structurally unsound every scene ends with a downbeat it's a mess and

then I just started to like unravel my accomplishment and sort of I don't know what that is right like the panic and

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