Hi my lovelies!!!
If you're in the States, I hope you are getting ready to give thanks and spend some well deserved time with family and friends.
But #SFFPit is quickly approaching! If you write SciFi or Fantasy and you don't know what #SFFPit is check THIS LINK.
For the next couple weeks, we'll be doing Bait and Pitch workshops with Twitter Pitches to help you prep. You can still participate if you're not doing #SFFPit! After all, #PitMad is right around the corner, too. So enjoy! And peer pressure a friend into joining us!
TWITTER PITCHES
Note: If you’re here looking for fishing tips, you’ve come to the wrong end of the blogosphere.
Okay, this week we are working on TWITTER pitches. That means you are giving us your best 140 characters including your hashtag & Category/Genre abbreviation (info below) and we will give you our communal feedback. Read the full list of rules with all their glorious explanations here.
The Rules
Bait and Pitch is open to ALL fiction categories.
This is open to manuscripts of any status.
Bring a friend.
Bring a friend.
One pitch per week.
You post, you crit.
You edit, you critique again.
If you revise, post it as a REPLY to your original pitch.
Critiques must include AT LEAST one piece of positive feedback.
Don’t be an asshole.
If you cross the line, *I* will critique your pitch in a similar manner. K? *grinz*
Formatting Your Pitch
Yes, you MUST use the #BaitPitch hashtag, as you would with any contest.
NAME: The Wicked Pitch of the East
CATEGORY/GENRE: YA/Fantasy
TITLE: WHERE ARE THOSE WILD THINGS, ANYWAY?
PITCH: #BaitPitch (YA/F)When Max grows up,yada yada yada.Use Twitter/Word to make sure you only have 140 characters or expect the verbal beatdown.
Cheers!
The Wicked Pitch of the East (aka Dannie)
NAME: Rebecca
ReplyDeleteCATEGORY/GENRE: upper MG/Sci Fi
TITLE: GAME ON!
PITCH: #BaitPitch In GAME ON, video game takes over a middle school. People vanish. To stop the game Max braves halls filled with battling avatars. #MG
or
Video game takes over school. Students become skirmishing avatars. When her favorite teacher vanishes, Maxine must stop the game #baitpitch #MG
I am new at this, but I will try my best Rebecca. Take my comment with a grain of salt. First of all, I love the idea that a video game is going to take over an entire school. This sounds like a powerful idea tapping into a subject every parent/learning coach/ teacher is worried about or should be. I am not sure you need to precise that people are vanishing. I think what is missing in your pitch is what the stakes are for Maxine. What will happen if Maxine does not battle the video game? I know that the school will disappear, but I would like to have the character arc. Why is it so important for Maxine to do this? What's so special about Maxine? Example: Maxine, the cheer leader of Elementary High needs to keep her reputation when a video game gobbles up half of the school. She organizes students to brave horrifying avatars. Something like this. Hope that helps :)
DeleteNAME: Sussu
ReplyDeleteCATEGORY/GENRE: YA Paranormal Fantasy
TITLE: SISTERS OF THE BEYOND
PITCH: #BaitPitch (YA/P) Hothead Janna would break out of psychic Juvie if she hadn’t send her twin into the Beyond by mistake. Now, she needs to save Moira from jinns before the police cuff her forever.
Thanks for the crit, Sussu, and Happy Thanksgiving! I like your pitch and get a good sense for the MC, the problem and the stakes. The one thing I wonder is why is she more likely to be able to save her save her sister from inside Juvie than if she were free? It's so hard to make a story clear in 140 characters!
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