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 life.

Had a 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 writing life.

I'm getting ready to go on vacation,

so we thought we'd talk about taking a vacation from your writing.

So even though the grind of being a writer can feel like it's never anything, your

writing, you know, you're always working, you're always processing and thinking about story,

giving ourselves the opportunity to vacate to vacation is really an important part of our work.

So, but before we get into our topic, we're going to talk about our week or what we like to call

Adventures in screenwriting.

Lori and how was your week?

My week was good, actually really good this week.

I don't have the usual like it was good and then here's how it was terrible. I, but I did an awful lot of peopling and it was exhausting in a way that I'm not used to.

I did I directed voice actors for one of my projects and I went to a big writer dinner for you know and I just it was a lot of peopleing and I had to recover.

And I felt sick the next day after multiple days of this,

which is so odd for me.

And I know it's a symptom of the pandemic

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