Writers can lead lonely lives. We seek solitude to find our creative space but feel like no one can relate to what we’re struggling with when we hit a block. Does anyone understand me?! I say it to myself often.
Enter Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna, co-hosts of The Screenwriting Life, a popular podcast you can find on Spotify, Anchor, and Apple Podcasts.
The Screenwriting Life podcast features guests that share their hard-won insight into not only the craft of screenwriting but the life of a writer and how to thrive in the profession or hobby. It aims to reassure writers that they’re not alone in their journey by building community.
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Recent guests include Maggie Cohn and Antonio Campus, co-showrunners on “The Staircase” on HBO Max, and Joey Tuccio, Founder of Roadmap Writers, a screenwriting education and training platform.
It feels good to know someone “gets it,” like a writing friend you can lean on when you just need someone who understands.
And Meg and Lorien certainly understand. Meg’s resume includes a long list of writing credits, including as an Oscar-nominated writer on Pixar’s “Inside Out” and Marvel’s “Captain Marvel.” Lorien worked in the story department for Pixar on films like “Up,” “Brave,” and “The Good Dinosaur.” Together, these writers have experienced the high highs and the low lows, and they’ve lived to tell about it.
Below, listen to Meg explain the podcast and its purpose in her own words.
Find The Screenwriting Life on Twitter, Facebook, and wherever you listen to podcasts.
We’re in it together. No, really,