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

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.

Hi guys, welcome back to the screenwriting life.

Today we are talking about a topic that we've brought up a few times on the show or many times and we really haven't covered it really on the show so we thought today we would do it which is character polls.

So I'm excited about the show because Meg talks about this and I want to learn more about it so

Meg this is your party today and I'm going to learn more about it. So, Meg, this is your party today and I'm just a guest. I put on my best party dress.

All right, we'll talk about it in a minute, but first let's get to our week or what we call Adventures in Screenwriting.

Lori and how was your week? My week was good. I had a meeting last week that was pretty exciting and I talked to an exec and she was like great

send me four ideas I did she picked two so I'm those, so I'm excited about that.

Hopefully that will become something that becomes something.

But I was working on that all weekend, so it was really fun.

And then I'm also working on character design for my animated project, which has been such a fun adventure because you know you read a script and you see the characters you know we read it but then once you get into like

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