I'm pulling on my driveway. We all know what that means. It's time for the drive to work.

Okay, so today's topic is one I've been promising for a while. The art of pitching.

So one of the things that I do in my job, that I actually did my old job, is, so what a pitch is, is you have an idea and you want other people

to buy into your idea.

So you have a meeting where the goal of the meeting is to sell them on your idea.

Now, obviously, so in my current job as the head designer, I pitch a lot.

I often have to go in and sell people on ideas that I'm doing.

My previous job, writing for television, I also had to pitch a lot.

In fact, a lot of writing for television is going into rooms and pitching ideas.

Could be ideas of individual episodes.

You often do that when you go into existing shows and you pitch them new episode ideas.

Sometimes it could be ideas of series in general. You can go to networks and pitch the whole idea for a series.

So one of the things that I did back in Hollywood is I took a whole bunch of classes in pitching,

because pitching is really important.

In fact, whether you make it or not in Hollywood has a lot to do with, are you good at pitching your ideas?

And it turns out when I got to a brand new job, game design, pitching was also really important.

So what I'm going to do today is walking through a lot of the basics of pitching and how to be better at it.

Um, note that this topic today, I mean, it applies to game design because I think game design has a lot of pitching in it.

But it's not, this is not really just the game design thing.

This is a larger world thing.

Like I said, my last job, which was about writing, was about pitching. And, you know, so there's, I think every job has a certain amount of pitching in it.

Okay, so lesson number one. So what is the most important thing to do when you're pitching? Of all the things you can do, what is the most important?

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