Hi, I'm Joe Forte. Welcome to the screenwriting life where I am getting to talk to Lorian McKenna today.

I have the honor of talking with Lauren McKenna today.

And Lorian and I are going to, what is it, called workshop, a new thought for the screenwriting life called Shop Talk.

And we don't know if this is going to work, but we're going to talk,

shop. Yes. Lori, what does it mean? The shop being writing. What do you think it means the word shop talk?

Like what would be good topics to talk about? We have one today. Yeah, I think the one you suggested

today, which is

how do you juggle multiple projects or manage them? I think it's really great because we get

asked that question a lot in our Q&As on TSL workshops and on the Facebook group. And we never

quite dig into it enough on episodes of the podcast, I think. So I think it's a good place to start. And I think

that's a great place to get questions. People want to get into the nitty gritty into the granular

of things that we don't often get a chance to with our guests. So we're standing around

the shop, you and I, and I'm going to ask you a question, which is, should you even have multiple

projects? People ask that, are you allowed to have multiple projects? Should you have multiple

projects? What is your opinion about that? Well, you know, I have an opinion about it.

And I want to hear it. The should part always makes me react because I'm like, how dare you say I should do something?

And I think for a lot of us working writers, it's a necessity. It's unavoidable. I would love the

luxury of you have one project. Here's a giant chunk of money. Here's how much time you have.

Focus on it. But even if you get that,

when you finish the project and you deliver it and you turn it in, what do you do next? So I think

it's inevitable that you are managing multiple projects, even if you're not getting paid to do any of

them. You should always have things in the, should. It is a good idea.

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