Hey, welcome to the screenwriting life. I'm Meg Lafov. And I'm L'Orian 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 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, how to not only survive the

ups and downs but rise. 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, welcome back to the show.

Today we'll be chatting with Oscar-nominated writer Kemp Powers

about his movie's Soul, One Night in Miami,

and The Art of Adaptation.

But first, Adventures in Screenwriting.

Lorian, how is your week?

My week was great.

Two interesting things happened this week. One is that I I wasn't able to

re-compartmentalize it, compartmentalize everything and that my time streams got off. So I had jury duty this week, but I didn't put it together that it actually impacted my week in some real way. Like I had so separated jury duty. So Wednesday I

texted Jeff and Meg like, hey you guys, I might have jury duty on Friday because it didn't make sense that jury

duty and my actual week were like the same timeline for some reason I think what's

happening is that I need to get out of the house.

Big picture. I need to get the hell out of my house. I need something different to happen.

I'm, yeah, and then the other thing is that I am feeling very much like back at the beginning on a project I've been working on for a very long time, which is very disheartening, right?

To be at a point where I feel like,

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