waxlions said: How important is ‘party charm’ to getting assignments? I do neither… :(

It has had next to no importance in my career to date: I’ve gotten all my assignments based on pitches, clips, and prior reputation. I did find my agent though through a woman I met at a dinner a couple of years ago, who had looked at my portfolio website before we met, and thought we’d be a good match for each other. She was right.

To sum: I think that to some degree, people like to work with people they like, but you can be likeable by doing things like using a personable tone in your emails, meeting up for coffee when you’re in the same city, and turning in your work on time. Or just generally not being an asshole. Doing good work is the most important thing, though, and any editor who hires based on who they met at the bar the other night is not a good editor.

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