As a favor for someone else I was allowed to come in and pitch 5 story ideas for a show (that's no longer on the air and I won't be naming). The problem was that it was my first time pitching. And at the time I didn't have a TiVo, so I couldn't stockpile episodes of the show so I could get a general sense of what it was like. All I could rely on was a couple of horribly recorded episodes from a co-worker and a Show Bible that was sent over for reference. And a couple of co-workers gave me general pointers on how to pitch.

So, I spent the weekend crafting what I thought were 5 funny, contemporary and compelling stories for this show. I felt I did a decent job with the stories considering the limited knowledge I had going in. I figured, well at the very least they'll find the stories to be contemporary, maybe they can buy the story ideas, I'll just take the Story By credit, and they can have one of their writers write the scripts. That's "worst case scenario," in my mind.

Anyway, Monday came, and I pitched to the folks I had to pitch to. To be honest, I wasn't that nervous. Initially. But the problem was, as I pitched, any *pause for laugh*s I had were instead filled with dead silence. *That* made me nervous. And at the end of every pitch, there was about a 3-second pause, which was usually followed with some variation on, "well, you know, interesting idea, but that's not really something our characters would do." Great. After the meeting I slumped out of that office and returned to work, and tried to play shit off like the pitch meeting went great and they loved my stories and would try to figure out a way to incorporate them into the show... bullshit.

But I learned from it, and moved on to bigger and better things...
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