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The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

8 | Enduring The Roller Coaster of Rejection

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

Meg LeFauve & Lorien McKenna

Tv & Film

4.91.1K Ratings

🗓️ 25 April 2020

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

The journey of the entertainment industry is a bumpy one, and today, Meg and Lorien talk you through practical strategies to survive it! PLUS, as always, we answer your incredible questions, here, on The Screenwriting Life podcast! Make sure to subscribe to Popcorn Talk! - http://youtube.com/popcorntalknetwork 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. HELPFUL LINKS: Website - http://popcorntalk.com Follow us on Twitter - https://twitter.com/thepopcorntalk Merch - http://shop.spreadshirt.com/PopcornTalk/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Welcome to popcorn talk featuring movie discussion, news and interviews.

0:04.8

Popcorn talk, we talk movie.

0:07.4

Hey guys, thanks so much for coming back and hanging out with us this week.

0:11.4

We're still at home right now Corona. And as we mentioned. hanging out

0:13.3

Corona.

0:14.2

And as we mentioned last week,

0:15.8

our topic this week is rejection.

0:18.5

D-D-Dun-D-Doh-Dun-Doh.

0:22.2

It's just part of the business. Just part of the business.

0:23.4

Just part of the business, but it's also part of being human, right?

0:25.9

So we're going to dig it into it today today.

0:28.2

But before we get to that, we're going to talk about our week or what we like to call adventures in

0:34.9

screenwriting. Lorian, how was your week? So I started out the week with a big, very

0:41.9

aggressive, very exciting list of things I was going to do and I was

0:46.3

excited about all the projects I was working on and then my computer crashed on Monday

0:51.1

in the middle of me trying to get a deliverable done, delivered actual producer on Monday.

0:56.0

And so then that sort of blew me out, right? I had to stop what I was doing, do a bunch of backups.

1:02.0

Then on Tuesday. to stop what I was doing, do a bunch of backups.

1:03.1

Then on Tuesday, my eyes started to bother me

1:08.0

because apparently I, and so I had to stop

1:11.4

bring my contacts. So, and then I had to stop wearing my contacts.

1:12.7

So, and then I had to deal with like,

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