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Topic: Steps of Pitching and Accepting
| Author | Message |
| kitty54 | Posted – 2/20/2008 5:39:28 PM | show profile Hi Everyone, I was wondering when you pitch an idea to an editor, can they accept immediately or do they have to clear it through their editor first? Thanks in advance. |
| recovering_jersey_girl | Posted – 2/20/2008 6:46:35 PM | show profile Depends. In most cases (unless you're pitching someone very high up the masthead), the ed. will have to run it up the flagpole. Sometimes there's practically a whole committee that weighs in. And it can be frustrating; not to name names, but I've worked with one major pub where 2 or 3 eds will love a story idea...and then someone above *them* will nix it. |
| WritingEd | Posted – 2/20/2008 9:21:31 PM | show profile In my experience there's generally the need to pitch the idea at the next edit meeting. The mid-level editor tends to know pretty quickly whether it's an idea that may work, but then many things can happen between then and getting the assignment, including my least favorite -- a request to flesh out or even pretty dramatically alter the pitch, sometimes requiring interviews with people who would be quoted in the actual story. It seems like every time I'm asked for a whole lot more information to back up a pitch or to completely rework a pitch it doesn't pan out, despite a lot of initial enthusiasm. |
| woof | Posted – 2/22/2008 1:54:53 PM | show profile Rejection comes with the territory. Brush yourself off and get right back to pitching. Additionally, the baseball analogy is apt. An excellent hitter bats .300 which means he fails 7 out of 10 times. |
