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The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

Meg LeFauve & Lorien McKenna

Tv & Film

4.9 • 1.1K Ratings

🗓️ 16 January 2022

⏱️ 42 minutes

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Hi All! We're BACK with another greatest hits episode featuring some of our industry's best television writers. Today, you'll hear from: TSL TV Writers - best of Javier Grillo-Marxuach (ep 46) Sam Bain (ep 62) Marti Noxon (ep 40) Shantira Jackson and Dewayne Perkins (ep 69) Sean Presant (ep 61) Stacy Rukeyser (ep 60) THANK YOU to Jess Fisher who put this episode together. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hey, welcome to the screenwriting life. I'm Meg Lafour. And I'm L'Orian McKenna.
0:05.0	We are professional screenwriters. We've worked together as a team and separately.
0:09.0	We've worked on studio and indie films, live action and 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.
0:17.9	We are here to share our insights on the craft of screenwriting and also the life.
0:23.5	Had a not only survive the ups and downs, but thrive.
0:26.6	We want to help you become the best screenwriter you can be
0:29.1	and to reassure you that you are not alone on this journey. What is up to the yourself family?
0:34.0	Welcome back from the holidays. Happy 2022, I think.
0:38.0	I don't know time's not real.
0:39.0	We want to first say sorry for the long break after the holidays.
0:42.0	Candidly, I contracted O'Macron. I want to first say sorry for the long break after the holidays.
0:42.8	Candidly, I contracted Omicron.
0:44.8	I'm doing fine.
0:45.7	I'm very grateful for being triple vaccinated.
0:48.7	Hopefully if any of the rest of you are dealing with COVID,
0:50.6	you had a very, very mild case like I did and for those who may not be
0:54.4	dealing with a mild case we're really really sending our best stay safe out there
0:57.8	it's a little gnarly also Meg is on a deadline right now and I'm sharing that
1:02.0	because she wanted me to share that with you.
1:04.8	Part of being a working writer is grinding through deadlines and candidly I think our team is a little
1:10.0	tired right now. But that being said we are so excited we will be back with a new
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