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NaNoWriMo and PitMad

11/24/2018

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NaNoWriMo is nearly over. How's your word count? I can't say much since I'm not participating this year, but my NaNoQueMo (?) is going well. Five agents queried with two more on the docket. Should have them done some time tonight. Then... the waiting. I suppose I'll have to move on to something else while I await the responses. Man... I just want this knot in my stomach to undo, but until I have responses, I'm boned.

So in the meantime, I guess I'm prepping for... PitMad. Yes. I didn't get enough of PitchWars and this querying isn't quite stressful enough. So now I'm working on fitting my entire pitch for The Paladin into a single Tweet. Yes, this is the world we live in.

If you're not familiar (and I wasn't until days ago) PitMad is related to PitchWars. In a similar fashion, for X amount of days, agents will be scouring tweets with the #PitMad hashtag. Your job, as the writer, is to pitch your story in 280 characters (less, I suppose, because you need room for the tag.) If an agent likes your pitch, they'll like it/heart it/whatever. This is your in. If they don't follow up, you can message them and point out they liked your pitch. 

Will this lead to anything? I sure hope so. Things are already stressful, and now I need to condense my query letter down to a tweet. Why do I put myself through this kind of stuff? Because I want to be published. It's really that simple. The business has changed and there are all kinds of new hoops to jump through, but if it gets this wannabe author a deal, I guess it's time to do some jumping. I mean, it's not as if I don't do silly things to entertain people anyway...

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