Hi, I’m Lindsey. I love helping people discover their superpower, create compelling content, and feel excited about pitching and networking. I teach people how to pitch like a boss, network like a VIP, and write like an Oscar winner. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter for actionable creativity and career tips.
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Hi This past Sunday May 19 was the Pitch Master Newsletter's 2nd birthday! Woo hoo! To celebrate here are the five most popular newsletters for the past year. Why You Should Write at the Car WashSometimes when you are searching for inspiration, try changing location. How the World's Worst Writer Can Inspire YouKeeler wrote over a hundred pulp novels (mostly detective stories) from the 1920s to the 1950s and is remembered for being a terrible writer with convoluted plots and crazy dialogue. Everyone Loves a Happy EndingMost movies and books have happy endings. The lovers get together; the bad guys are caught; the wrongly accused get their justice. In the world of entertainment, tragedies are rare. The real world is hard, and that’s why entertainment thrives. It takes us away from our troubles. How Not to Worry about the ApocalypseI worry a lot about the Apocalypse. A Day Job Can Make You More CreativeIf you have a day job or a side hustle to support yourself while you create, you are not a failure! Keep creating and see you next week! In Case You Missed ItUsing Family Stories as Inspiration Using Good News to Reconnect Social Media: Posting with Purpose Cheers, Lindsey Thanks for reading! You can share this article here. Was this week's newsletter useful? Help me to improve! Click on a link to vote: 👍Super! - 😐 Meh - 👎 Not my jam |
Hi I'm Lindsey Hughes
Hi, I’m Lindsey. I love helping people discover their superpower, create compelling content, and feel excited about pitching and networking. I teach people how to pitch like a boss, network like a VIP, and write like an Oscar winner. Subscribe to my weekly newsletter for actionable creativity and career tips.
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...