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22 | Finding Your People (Writers Need Writers)

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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Writers Don't Want to Be Replaced

Meg Urry: Writers can get written out. And of course we don't want to and I hope every producer and executive will hang in with a writer. The answer is you have to be the producer instead of saying, 'I'm going to do this because it's my script' She says she was once fired from her job for writing Bridesmaids after two drafts were read by studio Pixar.Urry: "You just don't know why taking this job and getting fired was going to help you on your beacon"

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