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The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

5 | Writing With A Partner

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

Meg LeFauve & Lorien McKenna

Tv & Film

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 4 April 2020

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Summary

Some of the best movies and the world were written by partners: FARGO, SPLASH, ELECTION, THE ROYAL TENENBAUMS, and PARASITE, for example, were all written by a writing partnerships, and in the best world, choosing a writing partnership may be one of the most creatively inspiring and generative decisions you make as a writer. At the same time, it can be crippling, so today, Meg and Lorien (who do write together!) are going to give you their best practices for writing with a partner! Welcome to The Screenwriting Life. Join us as professional screenwriters, Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna, whose combined credits include writing and production on such films as Inside Out, The Good Dinosaur and Captain Marvel discuss the craft, journey and business of writing for the screen. From dialogue to delivery, Meg and Lorien will guide you through the process, offering inside tips and tricks to help you become the best writer you can be. And now Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Transcript

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0:00.0

comfort of our own homes is we are safe at home with Corona.

0:07.0

So we're still bringing you shows remotely

0:10.1

because of everything that's going on.

0:12.2

So, you know, we did get some questions and comments

0:16.6

on the podcast and realize that some of you,

0:19.8

because of quarantine, are starting to consider

0:21.8

or go ahead and partner with other writers and you're

0:24.5

zooming together and writing some things so we thought today we would talk about what it's like to have

0:29.5

a writing partner.

0:30.9

Because it can be a really great productive generative experience and it can also be a not so great generative productive experience.

0:38.0

So we want to talk about that.

0:40.0

Yeah, so before we do our topic, which is working with a writing partner, we are going to do what we always do, which is start out with adventures in screenwriting or in other words, how is your your week always an interesting topic during a pandemic

0:59.2

hilarious.

1:01.2

Everything is our new normal.

1:03.0

For me this week, I just had something happen last night,

1:10.0

which is I heard, I've been waiting for a deal to go through for me to begin writing so my my deal is finished they had a cup there is an actor attached and he was getting his deal finished and I just heard last night that this particular studio is starting to

1:25.1

force majeure some of its writers who are on projects already. So what does that

1:30.0

mean? So force majeure means act of God we're pausing all the deals if you are owed money we're going to pause and

1:37.0

later after the force measure is over listen don't write it and tell me that I don't know what

1:41.9

force measure is because maybe I don, but that's my understanding of it.

1:45.0

And again, this is just something I've heard on another project at this studio.

1:51.0

It just makes my ears prick up like, oh, so this project at this studio, it just makes my ears prick up like, oh, so this project they might not move forward with it right now, right?

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