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The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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Screenwriting: Don't Do 20 Drafts at a Time

"I feel like I always do a sharp take off, I level out plateauing and then I've got to change my mind about what the story is really about or what the story really is," he says. "You can just do a set of reels with a room full of people and get it in front of you." He adds that if there was one advice someone they'd give him when he started out, would be 'don't try and make your next draft the last draft' The writer-director hopes to direct his first live action film this year.

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