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The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

53 | Honor Your Calling As A Creative & Screenwriter (Create Out Loud w/ Jen Louden)

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

Meg LeFauve & Lorien McKenna

Tv & Film

4.81K Ratings

🗓️ 11 July 2021

⏱️ 60 minutes

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Summary

FOR MORE CREATE OUT LOUD: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/create-out-loud-with-jennifer-louden/id1559415253 What would it take for you to turn down an offer from JJ Abrams (you know the guy who created Lost among other block-busters)? Ask Meg LeFavue, the Oscar-nominated writer of Inside Out, who had to do just that after committing to her creative calling to become a screenwriter. Meg LeFauve and her frequent writing partner and podcast co-host Lorien McKenna get extremely candid about the challenges and essential importance of committing to your artistic path and sticking with it.

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0:00.0

Hello, hello screenwriting life family. It is producer Jeff here. Any fan of the show knows that we've been a little sidetracked with very important production projects.

0:09.4

Loring is show running right now, I'm in prep for a feature that's shooting in gosh three weeks now

0:14.3

terrifying but we are very committed to this show so we've been doing everything we

0:18.3

can to still be producing episodes or specials until we're kind of back on the rails

0:22.0

with new episodes.

0:23.0

And I do want to tell you that that will be soon.

0:25.0

We're looking forward to coming back.

0:26.0

We miss seeing each other and we miss putting out new content for all of you.

0:29.0

But as I just mentioned, we've been committed to putting out specials for you.

0:33.0

And I'm really excited for today's episode.

0:35.6

You may remember about six weeks ago, we had a very special guest on our show

0:39.2

named Jennifer Loudin.

0:40.8

Jen is a creativity thought leader and her recent best-selling book, Why Bother, has kind of fundamentally

0:46.5

changed the way that Meg, Loring and I, look at the creative process, look at the necessity

0:51.6

and duty to our soul that we have to chase our desires

0:55.6

especially when it comes to creativity and Jen's episode about how kind of

0:59.8

self-compassion is really the engine of productive creativity has been a fan favorite.

1:05.2

And I'm excited to let you all know that Jen actually has a podcast herself.

1:09.7

I produce that show as well.

1:11.0

It's called Create Out Loud with Jennifer Loudin and we feature

1:13.8

some of the world's best creative thought leaders to talk about similarly to

1:18.4

how we do on TSL kind of the creative journey and the emotional experience of being a creative and the ups and downs and even conversations about money and how do we practically turn our desires and our creative passions into careers.

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