Targeting Your Pitch

Pattie Glenn, published author, screenplay writer and broker/manager spoke on “Targeting Your Pitch” at WAG’s Speakers Series meeting on April 26, 2015. She is a prolific author of books and screenplays in a range of genres. She’s also a talented singer (a soloist with the Gainesville Big Band) and realtor and founder of the GreenSmart team at Keller Williams Realty.

After her lively and informative talk on how to perfect your pitch to agents and publishers, she answered a few more questions:

Q: What first inspired you to write?

A: My grandmother was my biggest inspiration – she instilled in me a love of storytelling. Most importantly, she told me I could be whatever I wanted to be; that’s a really important thing for a child to hear. She taught me how to tell stories – she’d have me read aloud on a reel-to-reel tape.

I’m not going to say what year that was (I was four) but I still have that tape! I always enjoyed writing poetry in school, but I didn’t really start writing creatively until around 2003.

Q: What’s the secret ingredient to a great pitch? If there’s one thing you’d like everyone here to take away today, what would it be?

A: Definitely preparation. I prepare – I’m a narrative speaker by nature, so it’s hard for me to be concise. So I edit and edit and edit! I’m good at editing, but it’s not easy for me to do, so I put a lot of work into it.

Q: You’ve got a lot on your plate with a full-time career as a realtor, your singing, your writing – and promoting your writing must also take a lot of time. How do you make time for everything?

A: Well, I have to tell you, I’m really out of balance at times – real estate is that crazy. I rely a lot on prayer and meditation. I’d love my writing to be more of a full-time job – but still, I don’t want to do just one thing.

Background:
Pattie Glenn, published author, screenplay writer and broker/manager combines her creative and analytical talents to serve today’s entertainment markets, and seeks to empower audiences through stories for the heart and soul in her screenplays, novels, short stories, transmedia storytelling, and instructional materials for a variety of media. Glenn graduated Valedictorian from Full Sail University’s 2013 Creative Writing for Entertainment Bachelor’s of Fine Arts program.

Visit her website at Pondhawk Productions.