Pitch Pit #5: Shows wheel potential
A story with excellent potential that I think many publications would be interested in buying, but the pitch needs significant re-working
Category: Critiques
Analysing and deconstructing travel article pitches, to highlight the good and bad bits
Pitch Pit #4: Dead in the head
A ghoulish pitch that tells me to be afraid rather than showing me why I should be
Pitch Pit #3: The over-sensitive writer
Did someone kidnap all the headlines? A long-winded food pitch doesn’t sell what could be a nice story
Pitch Pit #2: Don’t be so generous
The second Pitch Pit victim ignores my advice about headlines and offers too much.
Pitch Pit #1: Where’s your head at?
The first Pitch Pit critique takes a swing at flowery language and hyper-positivism.