The Meeting - Pitch

24 words: An aspiring writer meets a seemingly friendly stranger on the train, unbknownst to her, he plans to sell her biggest story as his own.

Natalie Carson is a shy and ordinary girl from Nottingham who is currently working in London as an assistant to a Journalist but aspires to be a successful novelist herself. A recent University graduate, she is still trying to find her feet and work her way up to where she aims to be. She has been working on her biggest story yet with dreams of having it published so she can have the career she has always wanted. Whilst on the train home one weekend, a stranger knocks her and spills coffee all over her laptop, breaking it. With a calm and friendly disposition, he begins talking to her. Distressed that the details of her story have been lost, he convinces her to recite the story to him, word for word. Unknowingly to her, he is a book publisher himself who intends on selling her story as his own. 

Genre:
Drama 

Characters: 

Protagonist - Natalie Carson - Brown eyes/mousy brown hair, aged 22, plain-looking, recent Uni graduate, naive, shy, gullible, intelligent, kind, underestimates her writing ability.

Antagonist - John Smithers - Blue eyes and dark hair, aged 37, smartly dressed, well mannered, friendly, nonchalant,  smooth, secretive. 

Main location: 

Train from London st. Pancras to Nottingham - Day - Natalie is currently working in London doing office work but aims to be a writer, she is going to Nottingham to visit her family for the weekend.