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111 | Tone In Your Writing: The Definitive Episode (w/ Sheila Hanahan Taylor)

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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Genre Cute Composes Everyone

"Genre cute compuses everybody because then you say, okay, it's Western. Well, guess what? Let's look at all the different Westerns we have," she said. "I find often with when I read emerging writer scripts, one of the biggest problems is there's a billion tones in here." She added: "Let's pick first like what is going on in the movie or the TV show and then how does it make you feel?"

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