They're Not Being Polite; They Don't Have To

A teeny tiny post because I know 60% of you are hoping the turkey is not too dry. (Unless you went for it, and fried the thing. In which case it's yummy, and you're hoping you don't drop dead before you can get the cholesterol out of your system.) For those of us in Canada: hope you've already got your snow tires on. Yeesh. Where's global warming when you need it?

Q. I've sent a company my tv series pitch. They're asking to see a few pages. Do you think they are really interested or is this just a standard request before ultimate rejection?

No, if they were uninterested they wouldn't ask to see pages. They'd say TBNT.

They want to know if you can write. No one asks to read a stranger's stuff just out of politeness. Show people just aren't that polite.