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43 | Pitching & Meetings: EVERYTHING You Need To Know (Sheila Hanahan Taylor Pt. 2)

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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How Do You Sell Your Story?

"It's pitch specific and you have to bring your like dame Judy Dench to the table," she says. "I just wanted to tell you about my mom had three jobs and she worked nights at the hospital so I loved it." A young writer who was raised by his older sister pitched an hour-long drama set in 1906 New York for a Fox lab. He decided to frame the entire pilot around the typhoid Mary reveal, which he was positive.

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