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November 2007 Issue

Confessions of a Pitch Competition Judge: Five Tips to Improve Your Pitch
by Bill True
When the Austin Screenwriters' Conference first asked me to serve as a judge their annual script pitch competition a couple of years back, someone asked what (besides being a screenwriter) uniquely qualified me to be a good evaluator. "Well, " I told 'em, "I've had more pitches turned down than this whole room in total."

The Great American PitchFest Interview
with Jim Cirile
We sat down recently with Signe Olynyk and Bob Schultz, partners in the Great American and Great Canadian PitchFests, arguably the Rolls Royce of pitch fests. The next pitch fest rolls into the Marriott Burbank Hotel & Convention Center in Los Angeles, June 21 & 22, 2008...

Wondering How the Writer's Strike Affects You?
by Chris Soth
Hollywood By Phone and the Great American PitchFest invite you to join a free, live teleconference on November 20th to learn more, air concerns, and ask questions about the WGA strike. Only 200 callers may participate, so if interested, please email info@PitchFest.com with the subject line of conference call to RSVP.

The creative process is a process of surrender, not control.

- Julia Cameron

To begin... To begin... How to start? I'm hungry. I should get coffee. Coffee would help me think. Maybe I should write something first, then reward myself with coffee. Coffee and a muffin. So I need to establish the themes. Maybe a banana nut. That's a good muffin.

- Charlie Kaufman, trying to start writing in "Adaptation"

To me, the greatest pleasure of writing is not what it's about, but the inner music that words make.

- Truman Capote