Hey, welcome to the screenwriting life. I'm Meg Lafov. 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 life.

How 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 everyone, welcome back to the screen running life.

You might notice that this is Lorian and not Meg,

because it is just me today.

The universe is upside down.

Lorian opened the show.

That's okay.

It's, you know what, we're keeping things fresh.

So many of you guys loved the one-on-one career interview we did with Meg

just kind of as a chance to dive into Life Pre- Podcast and kind of getting to know Meg better. So we're going to do the same thing with

Lauren today and personally I am very excited for us. But first we're going to dive into our weeks and what we call adventures and screenwriting and to continue the upside down universe of it make I mean shoot

Makes I hear L'Orian thanks not here. It's just us. Jeff. Why don't you share your week first?

Sure. I will share my week. I'm going to mostly share last week. But so we had a Sinistory retreat that I went to. It was my first in-person retreat since the pandemic. And Sinistory is an important part of our podcast journey. For those of you don't know,

Synestory is a great screenwriting fellowship slash lab slash I don't know exactly

know how to describe it but it's a very cool nonprofit that mentors up-and-coming

writers who submit material and mentors such as Jeff and

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