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34 | Putting Yourself (And Your Writing) OUT There

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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Is Your Brain Trying to Keep You Out of the River?

"I live in two worlds. Don't we have the other one? Yeah, a lot of people do," she says. "If it has to be right and supposed to, it's actually a way that your brain is trying to keep you out of the river." Her son tried to write his short film but ended up erasing every sentence he wrote. She never deletes anything: "It's just that thing of I wrote it. I'm keeping it has value ... Something when it's crap, but I don't delete anything".

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