The Pitch Master Newsletter Weekly craft and career fuel for screenwriters and novelists with creativity tips and storytelling tools I'm switching the Pitch Master Newsletter from weekly to every other week so that I can focus more on my own writing. My next book for writers, Sell Your Book to Hollywood, is currently out to beta readers and on track to come out next month. I'm already hard at work on my next nonfiction book and in the middle of writing my first picture book. Stay tuned for...

The Pitch Master Newsletter Weekly craft and career fuel for screenwriters and novelists with creativity tips and storytelling tools It is Swap Ideas Day! It’s a day for brainstorming with a friend. Try this exercise: give your logline away and see what comes back. You hand another writer your logline and nothing else. They write your first ten script pages, or your first chapter. You write theirs. A week later you trade back and read what somebody else did with your story. Bam! A brand new...

The Pitch Master Newsletter Weekly craft and career fuel for screenwriters and novelists with creativity tips and storytelling tools “You’re my person.” Cristina Yang says to Meredith Grey in Grey’s Anatomy. People forget that she’s talking about paperwork. Cristina has scheduled a medical procedure. The clinic won’t confirm the appointment without an emergency contact, and she put down Meredith. That’s the origin of the phrase. It has since been annexed by romantic couples, but it was coined...