Sunday, April 5, 2009

Thirteen Black Cats - The Beginning


The Book Roast hosted a 75 word lucky pitch party for St. Patrick's Day. I thought it would be fun to participate, so I wrote a pitch about luck - bad luck. Moonrat chose my pitch as one of her favorites. And Thirteen Black Cats Under A Ladder got it's first words written that day.

It's a lot darker than I expected. That always surprises me. I think I know how a story will be as it travels from my brain through my fingertips and onto the computer screen. But it's like a game of telephone - what winds up on the page is different from what was in my head.

Maybe there are editors hidden in my elbows.

And the winning pitch was:
Curses are for princesses in books, not twelve-year-olds in Cranford, NJ. In THIRTEEN BLACK CATS UNDER A LADDER, Sasha inherits her brother’s curse and the cure he never figured out. She has to step on a crack, find a black cat, walk under a ladder, break a mirror, open an umbrella indoors and spill salt – in the right order, before she turns thirteen or her party will be a catastrophe and she’ll break a leg.

10 comments:

  1. YAY for the pitch! I'd read it!

    And I think the editors in your elbows theory is worth pondering... ; )

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  2. Sounds GREAT! Congrats on having your pitch do so well!

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  3. Look, you have another blog! Who knew?!

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  4. Thanks, Barrie!

    Hi McK. I've been launching it very slowly. My evil plan is working. ;-)

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  5. Wow, you have a lot of promising books in the works!

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  6. Thanks, Suzette!

    Now if I could just eek another 10 hours out of my week to devote to writing. *sigh*

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  7. I LOVE the pitch for this one! Wow! Write quickly!

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  8. Here's to editors in elbows! It's more fun when I discover what's next along with the characters. It's partly why I love to write.

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  9. Me, too, WW. I love it when they take off and tell me the story.

    I'm writing. I'm writing, Sherrie!

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