3 | What Actually Is THEME In Your Screenplay?
The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna
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Is Your Whole Body, It Can Feel Like That?
Lorin Ng says writing about vulnerability is a very personal thing. We're sort of protecting ourselves from really telling the truth on the page, in a way. Every rewrite is like scraping off another layer of it until you connect to that person. It can feel very frightening to come down into it. She describes how she had to write one scene inside out when her son ran away at 11-years-old. "I didn't even realize until that moment, riley coming home and saying to her parents, you want me to be happy, but i'm not"
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