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48 | Connecting Craft To Money And Career (As Screeenwriters)

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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Younger Writers Need Life Experience

When you're older a manager or an agent is gonna look at like there's less of a ramp time for you. I've been a lawyer for 12 years in this obscure legal thing that is actually amazing for a movie or a TV show and I really know what it's like  and can speak to that audience. "I have seen it where writers will use it as an excuse for victim power," she says about her experience with the industry. If you view your age as a superpower then that can really help propel you and motivate you, he adds.

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