Hey, welcome to the screenwriting life. I'm Meg Lafov. And I'm Lorraine 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 to 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. Hey everyone, welcome to the show.

We're going to do a bonus episode right now.

So many people ask very meg specific questions for Meg,

so we thought we'd devote the next episode to that. So Meg are you

ready? I'm ready rapid round rapid question round. Rapid question round. Rapid questions.

All right so who wants to ask the first question?

Oh, we also have Jess here, our amazing and astonishing intern, and Jeff is back, our fantastic

producers.

We have the whole gang here.

So we're just gonna take turns asking Meg questions.

And these questions are from the Facebook page,

just so everybody knows that's where they're coming from. So John asks he wants to know

about some of the greatest challenges you faced while transitioning from producing to screenwriting and if you have

any advice for people looking to make that leap as well.

I would say there were two aspects, two challenges in that transition. One was external, one was internal. The external one was in general, not everyone, but there's a group of people who really don't want you to make that transition. I went to some labs as a writer and I had people say things to me like,

well you didn't really write this and you know your director really did this right and it was kind of shocking honestly and I really got

set back a little bit that I wasn't being embraced in that role and then I realized

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