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

Had a 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.

Good morning screenwriting lifers.

I guess it might not be morning where you're listening.

It's definitely morning here in Los Angeles.

And as you're probably figuring out,

this is not going to be a conventional episode of a screenwriting life, but it's going to be a really good one.

We were going to run an episode on Boundaries this weekend, but we wisely decided to draw our own boundaries when a number of things kind of interfered with our recording.

I got my second vaccination dose and so we did decide to draw boundaries and instead we're bringing you something new.

Our intern Jess pitched a great idea. and instead we're bringing you something new.

Our intern Jess pitched a great idea,

which was to kind of compile a best of kind of greatest hits

episode of some of our favorite screenwriting life moments.

And as I look at the moments that we figured out and determined,

it's kind of an emergency toolkit for you if you're feeling blocked or stuck or uninspired.

So we cut together some of our favorite moments to help you through those challenges in sort of five to seven minute chunks. So in this compilation you'll hear about how to overcome writers block, how to outline a chunk in your writing, the importance of play,

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