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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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You're Going to Be Here Tone

"If I'm going to do a gravitas thing, I have to put them in situations that are gravitas," she says. "You literally on a plot choice lost us because the tone became death" The show's writers worry too much about how their word choices will be received by executives and audiences alike,. She adds: "It's so hard to figure out characters and sorting out how the story is going to be elevating."

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