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Cara Meredith's avatar

I'm reading this late, but I love, love, love how you walk us through the life of a pitch and subsequent story. You're upping my pitch game and I appreciate you!

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Anna Rollins's avatar

I appreciate your kindness and encouragement so much! And I can’t wait to see where the Church Camp-adjacent pitches land!

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Cara Meredith's avatar

I might need help on that… your brain seems to wrap its mind around all the adjacent pieces better than mine does!

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Marisa Russello's avatar

Would our Olsen Twins need to be a person or could it be something else? I know nothing about celebrities/famous people, but I know a decent amount about clarinet, living in Argentina, speaking Spanglish, foster parenting, or Bon Bell cheese, for example. What would work in this case?

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Anna Rollins's avatar

Oh, I definitely don’t think your Olsen Twins would need to be a person. Insert any sort of intense obsession, and I think you’ve got a compelling essay on your hands :)

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Joelle Tamraz's avatar

Thanks for showing us from your experience how to make things simpler. I will remember this!

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Anna Rollins's avatar

Thank you so much for reading and for your encouragement!

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Heidi Fettig Parton's avatar

Thank you for this prompt! I'm going to put it to good use!

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Anna Rollins's avatar

I’m so glad! Thank you for reading, Heidi!

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Midge Thorn's avatar

Enjoyed this, Anna. I loved the Monkees. I watched their silliness religiously, much to the dismay of my dad. Davy was my favorite. When he died, my son, Colin sent me a sympathy message.

As I look back, the show’s humor wasn’t really my favorite, but those long haired fellows drove my father crazy. That may have been part of the draw. I’m ever so glad I was the physical channel changer in those pre-remote days. I would never have gotten away with it when my Dad had a remote in hand.

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Anna Rollins's avatar

I love that Colin knew and loved you well enough to send you a sympathy message after Davy’s passing. That’s absolutely beautiful.

And I completely relate to liking something, in part, because that something drove an authority figure in my life crazy. Ha! I have to think about that as I parent my own children.

I appreciate you reading and your encouragement so much!

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Michelle Levy's avatar

“The people who succeed are the ones who have something to prove” Will stick with me. I have a couple instances in my life where someone’s skepticism became a thorn in my side, or a bee in my bonnet, and drove me to succeed. This rang true! The advice to develop a story with the zeitgeist of the time period fully fleshed out is valuable, too. For every character we write, we should know what was going on in the world when their story takes place. This research can be enriching.

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Anna Rollins's avatar

Absolutely! I’m so glad that resonated with you. I can trace almost every success I’ve had to the feeling that someone didn’t believe I could accomplish something 😂 I’m very driven by the desire to prove someone wrong 😃

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