Ann Petrou: Screenwriter in Sydney, Australia.

The script felt like it was in great shape. The Production Company seemed to be the perfect fit. And that's where the good news stopped. Five minutes past my pitch window, I received a call from an unknown number. On the other end was the broken-up voice of the Producer explaining how the Skype option had gone out the window and we were going to proceed like this: with no visual way of telling how my pitch was landing and no confirmation whether or not she was receiving the same broken-up dialogue I was hearing. But I launched into it anyway. And I got personal. In what might have been a borderline therapy session, I aired the personal flaws at the core of this script, and, again -- with no way of telling how it was landing -- it might've gotten weird. I was almost positive that it had gotten weird. To help me out, the Exec started hitting me with some questions that I was having a helluva time fielding. At this point, it had most definitely gotten weird. And STILL with no clue as to how I was being received, I came out and asked if she wanted to see the script. Yup, nothing was going right... Until I got the script rec today! Moral of the story: stick to your guns, know your story, be honest and open, and, ultimately, if it gets a little weird, that might just be the human consequence of discussing a touchy subject. It might have been, for all I know, what made her want to read the script in the first place. Now, will they want to go forward with this script? Who knows. Perhaps if everything keeps going wrong, they will :P

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