85 | Getting To The Heart Of Your Story w/ Pat Verducci

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

Meg LeFauve & Lorien McKenna

Tv & Film

4.8 • 1K Ratings

🗓️ 6 May 2022

⏱️ 51 minutes

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Summary

Pat Verducci is a celebrated writing coach, story analyst, and produced writer/director, but at her most basic, Pat wants to help every writer planet earth getting closer to the story their heart wants to tell. Today, she walks through how YOU can do the same thing, and become your own writing coach as you unpack your story.

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0:00.0	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 animation from my work on Inside Out and
0:14.0	Captain Marvel. To my work in Pixar Story Department on Up, Brave, and Inside Out.
0:18.0	We are here to share our insights on the craft of screenwriting and also the lights had a not only
0:24.0	survive the ups and downs but thrive. We want to help you become the best
0:27.9	screenwriter you can be and to reassure you that you are not alone on this
0:31.7	journey. Hey everyone welcome back to the show.
0:34.0	Today we are chatting with Pat Verducci.
0:37.0	In addition to writing and directing the feature film True Crime,
0:40.0	Pat has worked for Touchstone Pictures,
0:42.4	Witt Thomas Productions, Disney Animation Division. Pat has worked for Touchstone Pictures,
0:42.5	Witt Thomas Productions, Disney Animation Division,
0:45.2	and many others.
0:47.0	Hi, Pat, welcome to the show.
0:50.3	Pat is an amazing writing coach and story consultant who has worked with emerging and professional writers and novelist and many TSL listeners and I've worked with Pat and her notes are life changing.
1:02.0	Me too, me too. Pat is
1:04.0	joining us today to discuss how she approaches story as a coach and consultant
1:08.0	how we can learn to do some of that work ourselves and red flags
1:12.0	that should keep our eye, you know, that should keep our eyes on certain things when working with coaches.
1:15.9	So Pat Verduchi, welcome to the show.
1:19.5	Thanks for having me. I'm excited to be here. I'm a fan.
1:22.4	Yay! Yeah, Pat's also very wonderfully
1:26.1	active on our Facebook page and has interacted with a lot of our
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