by Angelo Bell
Team #RCWD has been working hard, brainstorming concepts to pitch to NBCUniversal. In the past 8 months, instead of just talking about pitching, we’ve pitched in-person to executives at NBC Drama, NBC Comedy, USA, Bravo, and E!. We have two more pitch meetings coming up, one at Style and we’re going back to USA.
I continue reiterating this because pitching is partly a numbers game. Out of fifteen written proposals we managed to get two requestes for MOW treatments from Syfy. From 35 or so concepts we’ve leveraged eight pitch meetings. From the outside looking in it might be easy to assume that “nothing’s going to happen.” But when you fully comprehend the dynamics and that mathematics of what we’ve done, and are doing, you’d probably deduce correctly that, it’s just a matter of time.
With one idea you’ve got one shot. With twenty ideas you’ve got twenty chances to hit the “big idea” or form a relationship with people who can do something for your writing career either now or in the future.