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123 | Dustin Lance Black (Milk, Under the Banner of Heaven) On Nuanced Screenwriting and Avoiding Cliches

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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Are You Always Working? I'm Always Home?

I think that's a particular issue for writers who work at home because I think it is confusing to children like, wait, you're home but you're not with me. My son wanted to know why I like you guys more than him. Teenagers want you actually need to be home the most as they'll say they hate you and they don't want you to be around them. They see if they don't but they really do. It might also be that we're actually loving good parents writers and we're empathetic and we like our kids a lot too.

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