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101 | Comedy Legend Dan O'Shannon On What Makes Our Writing Funny

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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The Power of High Concept Writing

Dana1981: I'm primarily a writer, but i decided to direct my own feature this year. It's a super microbuget coming of age dromedy, kind of like a millennial big chill. And so i took some advice from our friend mat leiberman, who just recently wrote the am, the ryan reynolds movie, free guy. He did a whole episode on account of the power of high concept writing and committing to a gonra. So i'm having so much fun in what's great about committing to something that feels a ittle more high conceptor within the guide rails of genres. Even if you know you're writing a scene that's going

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