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37 | LIVE From The London Screenwriter's Festival: Writing Emotion

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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How Do You Kill Your Darlings?

"I think as writers a lot is how do you kill your darlings?" she asks. "When you blow it up, you have to blow it up." She says sometimes we decide that those are darlings because they keep us safe. 'It's actually unconsciously keeping you safe from what is actually bubbling up in you'

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