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34 | Putting Yourself (And Your Writing) OUT There

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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The Specificity of a Mom

When it gets too general that's when we start to see the cliche like in a lot of movies or TV show you see the mom, and she's laid out a whole breakfast like toast and eggs and then the kid comes downstairs and doesn't eat anything and leaves. So leaning into that specificity is you authoring the thing with your own voice and your own experience I think it's really, really important because that's what's going to make you stand out as a writer.

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