Pitching to Get Started; Pitching to Sell

A writer needs to pitch twice.

The first time is when you’re thinking about an idea and may want to try it out on fellow writers and friends to assess their interest.

The second time is when you are ready to sell a storyline and hope that it has the pizazz necessary to create interest in your script.

There are good ideas and not-so-good ideas, and usually the best way to test an idea is to see what kind of interest you get with a simple pitch.

“Two teen-agers meet at summer camp and fall in love”. Ho-hum. It sounds like a million other ideas and there’s nothing special or compelling. If you pitched this to a few friends and you saw their eyes glaze over, you’d know it needs some work.

So, how to change the pitch? A good unique pitch will imply conflict, give a sense of the action of the storyline, suggest character and give a feeling for the context if the context is unusual or particularly cinematic.

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