Writing... or pretending to write

14 days til #PitMad.

4 chapters/scenes to write from scratch.

6 scenes to finish or heavily edit.

1 final read-through.

Yes?

Maybe.

I'll try.

No guarantees.

December event might be better.

We shall see.

Until then...

Yet another goal!

I feel that writing has a lot of these.

Daily word counts, overall word counts, pages, "this scene needs to get from Point A to Point B with this conversation," and on and on and on...

But! In my getting lost in hashtags (yes, I've still been doing that) I discovered Twitter pitching events/contests/things.

140 character (actually less, because you have to have the event hashtag in there) book pitch. Boom. You have to introduce your main character, the conflict, the stakes, the antagonist, and make it interesting enough for an agent to "favorite."

I first looked at this as a daunting horrible task, but it's actually kind of fun! The host of #PitMad, Brenda Drake, says that "the rule of thumb is twice per hour per manuscript." Agent Carly Watters also suggested to have several different tweets written so you aren't pumping out the same pitch all day.

I have five favorites. Narrowed down from ten.

So my new goal is to finish these edits and additions in time to participate in #PitMad on September 10, 2015.


Woot woot!