Comments on: Get Published, Part 9 – Pitch Perfect: The Art of Selling Your Story Verbally http://storyfix.com/get-published-part-9-%e2%80%93-pitch-perfect-the-art-of-selling-your-story-verbally Novel Writing Tips & Fundamentals - Storyfix.com Tue, 07 Sep 2010 19:01:55 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Trish http://storyfix.com/get-published-part-9-%e2%80%93-pitch-perfect-the-art-of-selling-your-story-verbally/comment-page-1#comment-2098 Trish Wed, 13 Jan 2010 03:18:25 +0000 http://storyfix.com/?p=1906#comment-2098 This is perhaps one of you best posts yet. I was hitting myself on the head as I was reading it because - like everything else on your site - once you point it out, it all makes perfect sense. I managed to muddle through my face to face pitches at the last conference I attended and even got some requests, but this info would have made the whole process so much easier. As always, thanks a ton. This is perhaps one of you best posts yet. I was hitting myself on the head as I was reading it because – like everything else on your site – once you point it out, it all makes perfect sense. I managed to muddle through my face to face pitches at the last conference I attended and even got some requests, but this info would have made the whole process so much easier. As always, thanks a ton.

]]> By: Sarah http://storyfix.com/get-published-part-9-%e2%80%93-pitch-perfect-the-art-of-selling-your-story-verbally/comment-page-1#comment-2042 Sarah Wed, 06 Jan 2010 23:11:40 +0000 http://storyfix.com/?p=1906#comment-2042 This is a great post! I never even considered this part of the process. When I get to the point where I need to use it, I will definitely use this as reference. On a different note- All of the Storyfix posts I've read are in direct relation to writing novels. I'm interested in writing short stories, as well. I would love to see a post, or even a comment from you, on how the story structure you've laid out applies to the much smaller medium of the short story. -Sarah This is a great post! I never even considered this part of the process. When I get to the point where I need to use it, I will definitely use this as reference.

On a different note- All of the Storyfix posts I’ve read are in direct relation to writing novels. I’m interested in writing short stories, as well. I would love to see a post, or even a comment from you, on how the story structure you’ve laid out applies to the much smaller medium of the short story.
-Sarah

]]> By: Luisa Perkins http://storyfix.com/get-published-part-9-%e2%80%93-pitch-perfect-the-art-of-selling-your-story-verbally/comment-page-1#comment-2038 Luisa Perkins Wed, 06 Jan 2010 21:27:54 +0000 http://storyfix.com/?p=1906#comment-2038 Awesome. I have a pitch appointment with an editor at a writers conference in April. This is EXACTLY what I needed to know. Thanks, as always. Awesome. I have a pitch appointment with an editor at a writers conference in April. This is EXACTLY what I needed to know. Thanks, as always.

]]> By: Larry http://storyfix.com/get-published-part-9-%e2%80%93-pitch-perfect-the-art-of-selling-your-story-verbally/comment-page-1#comment-2036 Larry Wed, 06 Jan 2010 18:32:28 +0000 http://storyfix.com/?p=1906#comment-2036 @Ben -- you got it... think of the third phase as a reinforcement of the promise made in the first phase. When you're doing that first phase set-up, what the listener hears has no context... yet. The second phase is the story itself, which provides that context. So when you reach phase three, you can site the story specifically. For example, after setting up and the overviewing the example used in the post (which is real, by the way, that book comes out in two month), you might say: "The choices that character faces are the ones we all face on a spiritual level... earthly rewards and pleasures, but at what cost? Versus blind faith in something bigger? We are all caught in that middle ground, it is the very essence of faith itself. And yet, this book is secular, it stands alone as a political thriller. Because whether you believe or not, you cannot deny that there are those who do indeed take radical measure in the name of what they believe, and the world must suffer those consequences." Hope this helps. L. @Ben — you got it… think of the third phase as a reinforcement of the promise made in the first phase. When you’re doing that first phase set-up, what the listener hears has no context… yet. The second phase is the story itself, which provides that context. So when you reach phase three, you can site the story specifically.

For example, after setting up and the overviewing the example used in the post (which is real, by the way, that book comes out in two month), you might say:

“The choices that character faces are the ones we all face on a spiritual level… earthly rewards and pleasures, but at what cost? Versus blind faith in something bigger? We are all caught in that middle ground, it is the very essence of faith itself. And yet, this book is secular, it stands alone as a political thriller. Because whether you believe or not, you cannot deny that there are those who do indeed take radical measure in the name of what they believe, and the world must suffer those consequences.”

Hope this helps. L.

]]> By: Ben http://storyfix.com/get-published-part-9-%e2%80%93-pitch-perfect-the-art-of-selling-your-story-verbally/comment-page-1#comment-2035 Ben Wed, 06 Jan 2010 17:52:11 +0000 http://storyfix.com/?p=1906#comment-2035 I didn't quite understand the third part of the pitch. It's a retelling of the first phase, but using the details of the story (the second phase), right? Maybe I need an example to better grasp it, but that seems a little inefficient, which is a big deal when you're giving an elevator pitch. Do set-up and story need to be explicitly blended together--wouldn't the agent put the two together on his/her own? I didn’t quite understand the third part of the pitch. It’s a retelling of the first phase, but using the details of the story (the second phase), right?

Maybe I need an example to better grasp it, but that seems a little inefficient, which is a big deal when you’re giving an elevator pitch. Do set-up and story need to be explicitly blended together–wouldn’t the agent put the two together on his/her own?

]]> By: Larry http://storyfix.com/get-published-part-9-%e2%80%93-pitch-perfect-the-art-of-selling-your-story-verbally/comment-page-1#comment-2034 Larry Wed, 06 Jan 2010 15:36:35 +0000 http://storyfix.com/?p=1906#comment-2034 @Sean -- perfect analogy, thanks for tossing it in here. Really nails it. @Sean — perfect analogy, thanks for tossing it in here. Really nails it.

]]> By: Sean Platt http://storyfix.com/get-published-part-9-%e2%80%93-pitch-perfect-the-art-of-selling-your-story-verbally/comment-page-1#comment-2033 Sean Platt Wed, 06 Jan 2010 14:57:29 +0000 http://storyfix.com/?p=1906#comment-2033 "You need a Masters degree in your own story." I love it! So your elevator pitch needs to be a trailer at first, and if you're lucky then it turns into a Q&A with the director, right? “You need a Masters degree in your own story.”

I love it!

So your elevator pitch needs to be a trailer at first, and if you’re lucky then it turns into a Q&A with the director, right?

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