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The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

48 | Connecting Craft To Money And Career (As Screeenwriters)

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

Meg LeFauve & Lorien McKenna

Tv & Film

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 6 June 2021

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

To enter contests, or NOT to enter contests? Do I need to live in LA? What if I'm not your run-of-the mill white dude writer? What if I'm OLDER than my competition? All of these questions are answers, no-holds-barred, in today's episode where we take YOUR questions.

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0:00.0

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

0:05.2

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

0:08.9

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

0:18.0

We are here to share our insights on the craft of screenwriting and also the lights, how to not only survive the

0:24.6

ups and downs but thrive.

0:26.7

We want to help you become the best screenwriter you can be and to reassure you that you are

0:30.6

not alone on this journey.

0:32.1

Hey everyone, welcome back to the show.

0:35.0

So because we've been having so many guests lately,

0:38.0

we wanted to do a sort of grab bag episode featuring all of your wonderful questions,

0:42.0

so let's go.

0:44.0

But before we dive into your questions, we're going to talk about our weeks or what we like to call

0:48.8

Adventures in Screenwriting.

0:50.8

Lorian, how was your week?

0:52.8

Big week.

0:53.8

Big week.

0:54.8

So I started on a show this week, and I also had a long planned vacation.

0:59.6

So I went away to my vacation, which was like a by-myself vacation, and worked the whole time, but it was great because I was working very hard to get my show set up.

1:08.0

So, your show running a show. I'm show running a show and I had the staff very quickly and I found amazing writers and I did want to talk a little bit about what it's like the staff a show and what happens in the process.

1:23.2

So, you know, I'm looking for specific group of people, each with a different set of skills and who each

1:32.1

brings something to the table.

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