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

L'Orienne 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 light.

Had a not only survived the ups and downs but thrives.

We want to help you become the best screenwriter you can be and to reassure you that you are not alone on this journey.

All right, you guys. that you are not alone on this journey.

All right, you guys, welcome to today's show. We're back today still from the comfort of our homes

as we kind of ride out this coronavirus.

And with everything going on, we're still bringing you to the show remotely, which we're excited about.

So listen, last week we discussed theme.

It's a big topic, So we're going to keep going today on that and

hopefully give you a practical exercise or two to take back to your own work. So if you need to catch up, go back and listen to one podcast prior.

But either way, I think you'll be fine and we're going to dive in.

But first we're going to discuss the last couple of weeks in what we call our

adventures in screenwriting. So Meg, how has your week been? Well, this is one

page that I wrote of all the crap I wanted to talk about my week.

It's pretty full on. I find that people are having different experiences as

writers if they either have children or don't have children or they have large responsibilities at home that have like tripled because now they lost support.

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