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.

Happy Sunday lifers producer Jeff here, I will keep this very short.

We had an incredible mind-blowingly good conversation with Sheila Han Taylor.

We covered so much that we think for

your sake and for our sake we want to break it up into two episodes. I mentioned it all

the time but one of our goals on the feed is to keep the topics as delineated and specific as possible so you

can find exactly what you need whenever you need it as a writer and we just

covered so much that we organized the episode and kind of edited it to cater well to your needs.

So great news, you get two episodes this week.

We're dropping part one today.

This conversation focuses mostly on rookie mistakes and the power of writing within genre,

especially when you're a young emerging writer,

I personally learned so much

from that specific line of conversation,

and I know you will too. And then for Wednesday we're dropping our big

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