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21 | Overcome EXCUSES & Keep Writing!

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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How to Write a Puke Draft

"I write from my gut a little bit more than story math," says the writer. "It's funny right like the details can be avoidance or they can be goals and you have to decide this is self knowledge am I really avoiding right now? So what I realized yeah so what I realized this morning is ah I need to just now take out that four page scene put what I think the line is in this scene", he said of his puke draft. 'If you wrote a pew draft that is that good that you can start doing details I'm like wow that's amazing,' she added. "'The future act has actually been fermenting for a long time' it might happen

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