The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

Latest Episodes:

120 | Professional Writers Share What You're Just "Supposed" To Know Jan 12, 2023

Show notes

There are some lessons that can only be learned through experience, time, and let's be honest - failure. Today, tons of professional writers anonymously share their ups and downs in the business by sharing what they wish they knew early in their career. It's a must-listen!

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

119 | Setting Realistic Writing Resolutions For The New Year Jan 06, 2023

Show notes

Why is it that the New Year so often invites trepidation, fear, and panic as we consider our achievements as artists? We consider that question today, while rethinking new years resolutions as a concept to feel more generous, achievable, and thoughtful as we approach the new year.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

118 | SPECIAL: Live Story Workshop From the 2022 Austin Film Festival (ft. Joe Forte) Dec 30, 2022

Show notes

We’re closing out 2022 with a LIVE panel from our time at the Austin Film Festival. Thanks to Joe Forte for joining!

TO JOIN OUR PATREON: www.patreon.com/thescreenwritinglife

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

117 | How To Write A Christmas or Holiday Movie (w/ Eirene Tran Donohue) Dec 23, 2022

Show notes

It's that time of year when hundreds of Holiday Movies air on screens all over the world. Whether its Hallmark, Lifetime, Disney+, Netflix, or Apple, or even Theaters, it's one of the hottest markets around for emerging and professional writers, and for Holiday screenwriting Queen Eirene Tran Donohue, one of the best ways to break in. Listen to her break down why!

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

116 | How To Stay Focused and Motivated Through Rewrites (Pick A Pony) Dec 19, 2022

Show notes

Diving back into your work after a round of notes can feel overwhelming, especially when we get thoughtful notes that can feel contradictory. How can we possibly incorporate every suggestion into our next draft? Spoiler alert: you can't. Instead, focusing on one ELEMENT of your rewrite can be the ticket to moving forward. Keep it simple; pick a pony.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

115 | Can We Write Characters that Don't Reflect Our Experience? (ft. Dr. Yalda T Uhls) Dec 12, 2022

Show notes

It's becoming and increasingly common (and important) question: are we allowed to tell stories about characters whose lives don't reflect our own? On today's show, UCLA psychologist Dr. Yalda T. Uhls answers this question, in addition to addressing questions around TV programming for kids and adolescent viewers, and unconcious bias in our writing.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

114 | How Writers Collaborate With Animated Directors ft. Nora Twomey Dec 05, 2022

Show notes

One of Netflix's most celebrated animated movies of the year comes from our very own Meg LeFauve, whose beautiful script for "My Father's Dragon" was brought to life by Nora Twomey, one of our industry's most celebrated animated directors. Nora and Meg discuss how the movie came to fruition, what the development process looked like, and why precision and attention to detail in our storytelling is the key to finding success in our work. Thanks Nora!

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

New episodes dropping MONDAY! Dec 02, 2022

Show notes

We have all been very busy so our new episodes for the next two weeks will be dropping on Mondays. Thanks for your patience!

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

113 | (REBROADCAST) Finding Self-Compassion For Your Writing...And YOURSELF w/ Dr. Kristin Neff Nov 25, 2022

Show notes

There are few jobs more mentally strenuous than that of a writer. Rejection. Writers block. Notes. Wash. Rinse. Repeat.

But today, bestselling author and thought leader Dr. Kristin Neff - renowned for her decades of research - is here to teach us about the beauty and the POWER of self-compassion. It will fundamentally shift the way you see you execute your creative life!

PURCHASE KRISTIN'S BOOKS: https://self-compassion.org/store/

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

112 | Finding Conviction In Your Writing w/ Patrick Osborne Nov 17, 2022

Show notes

Patrick Osborne may have won an Oscar for his short film feast, but finding the conviction to stick to his creative "North Star" while writing is still a journey. Find out how he does it on today's episode.

Patrick Osborne - is An Oscar, Emmy, and Peabody winning (and even Grammy Nominated) Writer/Director and animator. Patrick animated on a bunch of Feature films like Surf's Up, I am Legend, Bolt, Tangled.. Wreck it Ralph before getting a shot at Writing and Directing with his 2014 Disney short film FEAST. Since then he has traced a less than conventional path in the entertainment business, that includes creating a live-action Sitcom (Imaginary Mary) - and even directing concert film for one of the world's biggest pop stars, Billie Eilish.

Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Our TOPPODCAST Picks

Follow Us

Stay Connected

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

Related Podcasts

Links

Stay Connected