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Category: Critiques

Analysing and deconstructing travel article pitches, to highlight the good and bad bits

Pitch Pit #5: Shows wheel potential

Pitch Pit #5: Shows wheel potential

November 28, 2018April 18, 2019 James Durston Critiques Leave a comment

A story with excellent potential that I think many publications would be interested in buying, but the pitch needs significant re-working

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Pitch Pit #4: Dead in the head

Pitch Pit #4: Dead in the head

September 16, 2017April 18, 2019 James Durston Critiques Leave a comment

A ghoulish pitch that tells me to be afraid rather than showing me why I should be

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Pitch Pit #3: The over-sensitive writer

Pitch Pit #3: The over-sensitive writer

October 8, 2016April 18, 2019 James Durston Critiques 10 Comments

Did someone kidnap all the headlines? A long-winded food pitch doesn’t sell what could be a nice story

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Pitch Pit #2: Don’t be so generous

Pitch Pit #2: Don’t be so generous

September 5, 2016April 18, 2019 James Durston Critiques 2 Comments

The second Pitch Pit victim ignores my advice about headlines and offers too much.

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Pitch Pit #1: Where’s your head at?

Pitch Pit #1: Where’s your head at?

August 8, 2016April 18, 2019 James Durston Critiques 6 Comments

The first Pitch Pit critique takes a swing at flowery language and hyper-positivism.

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