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The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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The Only Thing You Have Is Your Unique Soul

I feel like as writers are super power. And sometimes the only thing we have is like that unique soul that's only yours. So really lean into that. I mean, my spec pilot is about a woman whose husband gets early on set Parkinson's. She's in a battle between being his caretaker and figuring out who the hell she is. It's an impossible choice and one that I've lived. The other two gasps love that show. You get to see the two also hysterical like funny. If it's a comedy or if you're doing something like my new favorite show, thank you, Lauren, for telling me to watch it.

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