Re: any screenwriters out

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From: Bonita Kale
Date: Tue, 29 Sep 1992 10:33

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References: <22489@venera.isi.edu> <1992Sep25.2168.2944@dosgate>

In a previous article, jas@ISI.EDU (Jeff Sullivan) says:

>In article <1992Sep25.2168.2944@dosgate> glenn.devlin@canrem.com (glenn devlin) writes:

...

>>I evny you for being able to meet and pitch. 
>
>Don't.  It's a bloody, painful process.  I'd give anything to be able
>to avoid it, but it's a necessary part of the biz at this point in my
>fledgling career.

It sounds intolerable.  Are you naturally good at talking to people?  Did
you win prizes for selling the most Boy Scout peanut brittle as a child? 
What's it like, pitching ideas?  Do you have to try to sound enthusiastic? 
(I don't mean you aren't enthusiastic about your ideas, but you obviously
aren't about doing the pitching, and I'd think that would come through.) 
Wouldn't you think the people you pitch to (who are they?) would get so
sick of it, they'd welcome a nice, quick presentation on paper that they
could read at their leisure?

Anyway, if you care to post a report from the combat zone, I, for one,
would be very interested. 

Bonita Kale

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