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 lights had a not only

survive 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.

This would be an okay time for questions unless any of you...

Yeah, we'll start right here.

I can bring you the mic.

Hi, so I've been a writer of like short stories, novels, and non-fiction,

and so now I'm sort of

transitioning into being interested in scripts and looking into acting in film

which I never thought I would. And one of the things I'm finding,

especially with social media,

is that it's just saturated.

There's just so many people wanting to create art.

And I'm wondering if you can speak to that a little bit in terms of what's relevant because sometimes what you might be doing for fun or to find your voice is totally not something anybody needs to see.

And I feel like there's also some transitioning in Hollywood,

some need of certain kinds of stories that could be healing and it just seems like

there's a change and I'm wondering if you can speak to like content and what

the kind of pulse or where a story should be coming from maybe

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