147 | Elemental Co-Writer Brenda Hsueh On Balancing Comedy and Drama In Our Writing
The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna
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How to Write a Spec of an Existing Show
"I like when a joke is emotional, but it just revealed something about character and it just shifted the plot," she says. "There's something very valuable to be able to write a show compellingly convincingly in a another voice", Meg adds. The actress has been trying to unlearn her habit of making jokes as a defense mechanism against real-life situations that are hard to deal with.
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