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134 | Courage And Honesty In Our Writing w/ Rafael Casal

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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The Discomfort of Being a Storyteller

"I feel a little bit like we're just kind of pushing the choir here because there's so much people who know how to write character really well," she says. "We run a ship on enthusiasm, and I think the idea that if you're excited about it, other people can get excited about it." The show is set in an apartment where Jasmine lives with her boyfriend Sean (played by C.B. Jones), his ex-wife Toni Collette (LZ Granderson) and their daughter Lizzie (Sandra Bullock) A lot of these big chemies are micro dynamics that collectively we all had experience with,. So let's try to portray them accurately

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