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63 | LIVE From The Austin Film Festival: Story Workshop

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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Adoption Trauma

"I was once consulting with a script and in the script, the kid at the end kills his abusive father. And it just never ranked true," she says. "You could talk to a psychiatrist about abandonment trauma and it'll give you beautiful, you know, and expressive when it tones into you."

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