The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

32 | Writer Ed Solomon (Bill & Ted, MIB): Finding Emotional Truth In Every Story

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Feb 21, 2021
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1
Introduction
00:00 • 2min
2
I Received a Compliment and I Accepted It
01:57 • 2min
3
I Love It. Great Week, Ed.
03:36 • 3min
4
I'm Going to Just Be So Anyway
06:18 • 2min
5
I Have a Musical, I'm a Producer and I Love Branching Narratives
07:52 • 4min
6
Is This a Big One?
11:58 • 2min
7
What's the Problem Under the Problem?
13:28 • 5min
8
What Is Your Job as a Parent?
18:37 • 2min
9
How Do I Write This Script?
20:10 • 2min
10
How Do You Create High Concept?
22:05 • 1min
11
Men in Black
23:29 • 5min
12
Getting Fired - I Still Have It
28:16 • 5min
13
What Does She Want? And What Do You Think She Wants?
33:45 • 2min
14
Emerging Writers
35:51 • 2min
15
How Do You Handle Rejection? You Don't Have to Experience It Anymore
37:35 • 1min
16
Are You a Fancy Writer?
39:05 • 2min
17
The Inability to Deal With Rejection
41:03 • 2min
18
The Idea of Rejection Is a Big, Big Idea
42:50 • 2min
19
Every Day Is a Failure
44:57 • 2min
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Is It Failure or Challenge?
46:32 • 5min
21
Early Scripts Get Rejected a Lot
51:33 • 2min
22
Is There an Originality of Voice in a 120 Page Screen?
53:06 • 6min
23
Writers Are Not Being Taken Advantage of by Producers
58:37 • 2min
24
The Benefits of Rejection
01:00:42 • 5min
25
I'd Succeeded in TV, Bill and Ted Wouldn't Have Happened
01:06:11 • 2min
26
You Have to Take a Choice
01:08:11 • 3min
27
How to Pick a Direction for a First Time Writer
01:10:51 • 2min
28
The Fork in the Road - It's the Lottery
01:12:28 • 4min
29
Creative Writers Networking - Part Two
01:16:45 • 3min