Hey, welcome to the screenwriting life. I'm Meg Lafour. And I'm L'Orian 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 TSL family, producer Jeff here,

and we want to start by saying thank you for your patience.

I know this episode is oddly dropping on a Sunday

and we had just switched to our Thursday schedule.

Good news, you're actually getting a bonus episode this week.

So starting this Thursday, you will have another episode

and presumably we will be consistently releasing on Thursdays

from here on out, assuming that nothing else kind of shows up in our lives, but we are

so excited to get back and we feel like we're back with a really amazing episode.

Lorian is joining us, and as you can imagine, our team had a lot to catch up on.

And as our Adventures in Screenwriting segment kind of evolved, it seems like the writing gods were sort of

pointing us toward the same thing, which is how we can take care of our writer-selves when we're feeling overwhelmed.

I know that I and so many of you all in the Facebook group feel so grateful that Lorian has let us

into the struggles of this brand new chapter in her life. We'll talk more about that on the show.

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