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 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 a not only survived the ups and downs but thrives.

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 back to the Screen Ready Life.

Today we're going to do a deep dive on Want.

What does a character, your character, want?

But before we get into that, we're going to talk about our weeks or what we like to call adventures in screen writing.

Lorian, how was your week?

It was just delightful. Fine always regular no drama nothing interesting happened

That's a big fat lie but one of the things I wanted to talk about, I was revisiting,

so I have this incredibly robust drafts file in my email.

Like emails I've started,

notes to myself, titles of things that I don't know what they are, but I did find this email that was a letter for myself called Goals for 2021.

So I realize that is last year,

but I don't know who suggested I do this,

or Meg, if this was a practice you and I started a while ago,

where I wrote in first person present what I wanted to happen. So in mid June I get a call from blank and this happened. So I got really detailed about it and I really like it.

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