My job is just... pitch.

Get the downloadable deck I used to pitch a TV show!

Before I started working in the industry, I thought being a professional writer was all about, well, writing.

I imagined I’d spend my time thinking up new, original ideas, writing scripts for said ideas, and then selling those scripts to the highest bidder.

But most of the time, as a mid-level screenwriter, I’m not writing scripts. Most of the time, my job is just… pitch.

• Pitch on open writing assignments (OWAs).

• Pitch on rewrites.

• Pitch to studios with producers and big pieces of talent attached.

• Pitch myself in general meetings.

In normal, non-strike times, I think I spend more time working on pitches than I do writing on actual scripts!

In a recent Tuesday post, I talked all things pitching — how to pitch, how to get the opportunity to pitch, etc. I even shared my full YouTube pitching tutorial, in which I “perform” an actual pitch that I shopped around town a few years ago.

But, in the JULIA HAS NOTES Discord, a writer’s community exclusively for JHS paid subscribers, one of our members said their goal was to finish a pitch deck before the end of the year.

So, I thought it could be helpful to share the physical pitch deck that accompanied the pitch.