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I promised I would post some good pitches from #PitchMad. Seeing what gets grabbed by agents is a good way to know what makes for a decent pitch. (Bad ones are just funnier in the absolute opposite way.) These pitches were either starred (requested by agents), or retweeted by myself and my friend because we liked them. And I will say, with the utmost smugness, that out of 45,000 tweets tagged #PitchMad, I got 7 agent requests and 1 publisher request, while my friend got 7 agent requests. Not bad out of 45,000 tweets! 1. Years ago, they called this beach town Murderville. 5th-yr senior Jackson, looking into a friend's death, is about to lea

I joined a Twitter dealie where you pitch to agents over Twitter, and I swear I learned more in one day about pitching than I have reading any number of how-to-write books. A logline is a one sentence pitch of your story. It can be used on Twitter, but it's also used in person as an elevator pitch. It's the distilled essence of stakes, story, and character.  Some people find it frustrating and intimidating, but I find it easier to do a logline than a query. I got a few bites from agents, so I was quite pleased. I gained a lot of sympathy for them around 3 in the afternoon, though. Every pitch starts looking the same, and the really, really

1. Take action that someone can react to. I'm really amazed at how prevalent this is, and all I can think of is that people are afraid to be bold, especially if they are new to RP and don't want to step on people's toes. Back in the day, I used to roleplay on a Lion King forum (ahem), and the few close friends I gathered called this kind of crap "butterfly roleplay", as in: a lion comes into the thread and chases butterflies. Another lion comes in and chases it, too. They get to be friends by bonding over a butterfly. Everyone is happy forever and ever. Look, text roleplay is a training ground for learning how to write and write well. Conflic