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The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

37 | LIVE From The London Screenwriter's Festival: Writing Emotion

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

Meg LeFauve & Lorien McKenna

Tv & Film

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2021

⏱️ 84 minutes

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Summary

Emotionally rich writing has always been a Hallmark for both Meg and Lorien in their writing, and on today's show, we dig into the meat of what makes it work and why. TSL family member Savannah Morgan hooked us up with the London Screenwriter's Festival, and moderated an AMAZING interview w/ Meg and Lorien where they got into all of it. It's an amazing listen!

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0:00.0

Hey, welcome to the screenwriting life. I'm Meg Lafour. And I'm L'Orian McKenna.

0:05.0

We are professional screenwriters. We've worked together as a team and separately.

0:09.0

We've worked on studio and indie films, live action, and animation animation from my work on Inside Out and

0:13.9

Captain Marvel.

0:14.7

To my work in Pixar Story Department on Up, Brave, and Inside Out.

0:18.8

We are here to share our insights on the craft of screenwriting and also the lights,

0:23.5

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

0:26.6

We want to help you become the best screenwriter you can be

0:29.1

and to reassure you that you are not alone on this journey. Happy Sunday Screenwriting Life Family.

0:34.0

It is producer Jeff here to let you know that we are doing something a little different this week.

0:38.0

Last weekend actually, Meg Lorian and I were all attendees at Sinistory.

0:43.4

It is a screw-ading nonprofit and it's actually sort of the genesis of our show.

0:46.8

That's how the three of us met.

0:48.3

So we really owe this show to Sinistory and we met a couple screenwriting life family members there which was really fun it was great to meet all of you

0:56.2

But because of that we decided to kind of take this week off and rerun some old content so if you never got a chance to catch it, actually another screenwriting life listener,

1:04.8

hooked us up with the London Screenwriting Life Festival.

1:07.8

And she actually facilitated an interview with Megan Lorry in a very beautiful way.

1:12.1

Savannah, you did a great job on the interview.

1:14.0

And I was gracious enough to offer that interview

1:15.9

to us to run in our audio feed.

1:17.7

So this is an amazing conversation between Megan Lorian,

1:21.0

kind of about the emotional stakes and emotional work that our

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