I recently went through some posts on an old blog of mine, and I came across this little gem. Years earlier, I had heard that a good exercise for creating pitches was to describe your novel in three sentences. So I tried it with two of my ideas. For my novel, Damocles, I came up with the following:
Most people go through their day-to-day lives worrying about “important” things: career, money, marriage. But what if one morning everyone wakes up to learn that in four days there will be destruction on an unprecedented scale killing tens of millions and there is nothing we can do to stop it. What becomes important then?
But for my novel None
of Them Knew the Color of the Sky, I managed one sentence:
Will a treasure from the past be enough to unite the survivors of a nuclear war; or, are arrogance, mistrust, and hatred too akin to cockroaches?
That’s a great
exercise, and all, but some ten years after I first posted these, I still only
have notes for Damocles, and None of Them Knew the Color of the Sky
is still just half-finished. So I think
I’ll try to finish some novels before coming up with pitches for them.
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