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1 | Getting Notes On Your Work

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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I've Got No Original Ideas, Right?

Sir Richard Wentworth: I got to a point a couple of weeks ago where I just felt like I have no original ideas. Like I just felt tired. And so I took a generative writing class with Collette Sartore. She's a professor of writing. And it was something that I used to write, but I love my voice in that space and it's easy and fun. He says you might have spent too many drafts up in the symptoms and now you're getting exhausted because there's just- Do you mean like in the plot? I mean the engine. So what is this about? What's the world? Is there a genre? Who's the main character?

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