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42 | Rookie Mistakes & The Power Of Genre (Sheila Hanahan Taylor Pt. 1)

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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The Last 10% That Most Actors Never Get to Push Through

"The sooner a rookie figures out their baggage, like with a capital B, the better you are as a writer," she says. "I think they've made many stories to tell and many characters for us to learn from." 'It's hard so many people walk away too soon,' writes Meg Urry on screen-ready tips. "'You have no idea what you're doing but you still have no idea how to fix it' is one of my favorite things about working in Hollywood.'"

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