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117 | How To Write A Christmas or Holiday Movie (w/ Eirene Tran Donohue)

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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How Can I Put a Twist on This Christmas Experience?

Sometimes I'll just come up with a title and then reverse engineer a story out of it. You know, how do you combine the things in your life with like a Christmas twist on it? So you can get ideas from that or you look at like a regular movie and you think how do I turn that into a Christmas movie? How can I take that sort of storyline and make it about Christmas? Or how do I take this Christmas tradition and make it interesting? That's a big thing for me. I always enjoyed Christmas movies and they were always seen as like the guilty pleasure. It's really fun to be able to write a movie that my mom wants to watch and her friend wants

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