Monday, April 1, 2013

Wow! What a Rush! #pitmad and #writemotivation recaps

The last couple days have been a blur. It started Friday with the #pitmad twitter party put on by the fabulous and awesome, Brenda Drake. It was open to any author with a completed manuscript. Having missed out on Pitchmadness, I wasn't exactly sure I would be involved. I'm glad I did.

I ended up twitter jail from all retweets I was doing as the pitches flew past my screen. That and I was tossing in my own tweets as well as participating in the #fakepitmad party that a couple of my friends started. I was posting lines from They Fight Crime website. Go there. it's awesome. Here are a couple examples:
He's a witless bohemian farmboy on the wrong side of the law. She's a chain-smoking antique-collecting research scientist married to the Mob. They fight crime!
or
He's an uncontrollable dishevelled librarian searching for his wife's true killer. She's a beautiful gypsy pearl diver with an MBA from Harvard. They fight crime!

It was a pretty wild day and a lot of people got requests. Carissa Taylor was kind enough to compile a list. If you participated, check it out. You may have missed something.

Congrats to all 235 manuscripts that got requests. Good luck to you all!

I wrote up 7 different tweets that I rotated throughout the day:
  1. YA: 17yo Julius Monroe hates the world, but if he wants a chance for love, he must stand up to his father's rage or lose it all. #PitMad
  2. YA: Julius just wants to be left alone. Too bad the popular girl and her jealous boyfriend didn't get the message. #PitMad
  3. YA: Julius' trusts his best friend with the truth of his father's abuse. Unfortunately, Julius' friend has a secret of his own. #PitMad
  4. YA: 1 badass jacket+1 abusive father=Julius' life. Toss in a friend with a secret, the school bully and his GF and you have a mess #PitMad
  5. YA: With failing grades, and an abusive father, Julius hates his life. Until love comes from an unexpected source. #PitMad
  6. YA: a story of life, love, pain, and one badass jacket. #PitMad
  7. YA: Christina wants to help Julius pass social studies. Her jock BF wants to use him for a punching bag. Messy is an understatement #PitMad
I wasn't expecting anything, but it was worth a shot. Imagine my surprise when I got pings on #1 and #6.
First I was...
YEAH! I GOT A FAVORITE FROM AN AGENT!

Then I was...
ZOMG! I JUST SENT A QUERY AND PAGES TO AN AGENT!

Then I was...
OMG! NOW THEY WANT MORE AND A SYNOPSIS! I DON'T HAVE A SYNOPSIS!

Later that night and the following day I was...
WRITING ALL THE SYNOPSISIS!!!!
Sometime around 4:30 pm Saturday, I clicked send and stumbled out of the writing cave. I'm sure I consumed toxic quantities of caffeine in order to get it all done and sent.

So now I wait (as all of those of us wait). And while I'm waiting I will be doing this...



And finding other things to distract me...like a new story...I have been advised that agents love it when you have a lot of stories. I was also advised not to write dystopian or anything involving vampires, werewolves or angels...including vampire angels in a dystopian apocalyptic future...even if it sounds awesome.

I also have several books, comic books, and a manuscript (epic fantasy FTW) to beta read for a friend.

It's a good thing I have 26 story ideas in my story idea word document.

Changing gears:
#writemotivation was a huge success for me. Got all my goals accomplished. Not to sit back, regroup, drink all the coffee and try not the panic too much.

'Till Next Time

10 comments:

  1. I am so glad to hear you had success during pitmad. Go you. The waiting is the WORST part of it OMG but good luck.

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    1. Yeah. Day Job Productivity=Zero at the moment.

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  2. *happy dance, happy dance, happy dance and cookies and hugs* oh and don't forget to breathe!

    Jai

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    1. LOL. :D Definitely! :D *hyperventilates* :D

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  3. YAAAAAAAAY!*flings confetti madly about the room*

    Congratulations again! That's so fantastic. May the agent get back to you speedily! :-)

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    1. I hope so too! It's hard to keep the feels out of my head. :D

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  4. OMG! "...and one badass jacket." of course you got a hit on that one. congrats! i always have a hard enough time coming up with ONE good twitter pitch, let alone seven! great job! good luck with your submissions!

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