Send a script, submit a bible, pitch a producer, best case scenario?

We love it we want in let’s develop let’s make it. Hooray!!

Wow. That was easy, right?

No. Not easy. But it’s what we writers all hope for, the resounding, decisive, enthusiastic, obvious, no-bones-about-it HARD YES. It’s rare, sometimes it feels impossible, but it validates both your belief in the thing, because others you (hopefully) hold in high regard are also now believers in said thing.

But let’s be honest. What do we mostly get instead of the HARD YES?

Oh, it’s cool. Yeah, it’s different. I like it. Let me consult with my team and we will get back to you never or in one to seventeen years that cool?

Not here to producer bash. Some of us writers are insufferably polite and we target one producer at a time and wait for their response (Stop doing that). They have forty or fifty of us, maybe more, inundating them, all of the time. They are trying to balance honesty, and sometimes — although it may seem “nice” at the time — they are being Canadian. Even if they aren’t Canadian, they are being folksy and hopeful and optimistic to a fault and not wanting to hurt feelings.