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The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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What's the Hardest Thing About Writing?

The hardest thing for me about writing is sometimes I'll work on something that's so specific and so personal that it probably should have been a book because those work better in niche, niche audiences. And I'll have something I've built and worked on and love so much and want to see it made. And it's just too small an audience and no one wants to make it. It's that moment where you have to pull the record and go, "I could work on that forever"

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