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, 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 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.

Hey guys, welcome back to the show.

Today we're thrilled to be chatting with best-selling author,

creativity, thought leader, and fellow podcaster Jennifer Louden.

Jen's most recent best-selling book, Why Bother, was inspired by a creative dry spell in her own creative life that forced her to ask what she now considers one of the most important questions we can ask ourselves as writers. Why bother?

Welcome, Jen. Welcome, Jen. We're super happy to have your hair.

I'm super happy to do both of you. I just think you're amazing. Both of you are amazing. So for you.

All right, so before we get into all this because we're so excited we are going to do you have agreed bravely to join our

adventures and screenwriting lorry and you go first so Jen can a little hear how we do it

how was your week? Well so so my week was fine, but I want to tell a story about my mother that seems like it's not about screenwriting, but it actually is at the end. So a while ago my mom who listens to the podcast told me that her

favorite part of the show that I host is Jeff the producer.

Fantastic.

And I was like, and I was like, cool mom, what great feedback.

So then, I mean, come on. I know, he's great. And then I challenged her. I was like,

what mom? I host the, she goes, no, he's just great. And then she went on to talk about all the ways

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