The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

Meg LeFauve wrote Inside Out. Lorien McKenna developed projects at Pixar. Both have been working screenwriters for years, and together they run what might be the most emotionally honest podcast about writing for film and television. The show covers the usual craft stuff, including structure, character arcs, rewrites, and notes from executives, but it spends just as much time on the part most screenwriting shows skip: what it actually feels like to do this job. The stretches between paychecks. The script that got you close but not a deal. The guilt of not writing when you should be. Episodes alternate between interviews with working screenwriters and the two hosts talking through their own current projects and frustrations. Guests have included writers from major studio features, prestige TV shows, animation, and indie film. The tone is warm and specific, more like eavesdropping on two friends who happen to be pros than a formal interview show. If you are working on your first feature spec or your tenth, and you want to hear people talk about both the craft and the psychology of a writing career without pretending it is always glamorous, this one belongs in your rotation.