Best of the Best

Over the holidays, I was asked on a few different ocasions what I was writing about.  I love to talk about writing.  I love it even more when someone is interested enough to ask me about it.  But to briefly sum up the thing I've been bleeding my heart and soul into for over a year (I don't want to say how long it's really been)? 

My response usually goes something like, "Um, well, there's this girl and these beasts, and the Protectors, and there was a meteoric rain that destroyed the planet, um..."   

My brain spasms, my mouth sputters incoherancies, I feel like a failure because now my writing sounds like a bunch of hooey.

This should be simple. After all, I'm the one who made it up.

Try as I might, I cannot clearly state the gist of my manuscript.  In light of this, and the several blog competitions/contests coming up on the subject, I have dedicated this week's Best of the Best to writing a clear pitch/logline and hopefully soon I will be able to write one myself :) 

Best of the Best--pitch/logline

Nathan Bransford's How to Write a One Sentence Pitch

Writing Killer Loglines by Stina Lindenblatt

Story Sensei's Elevator Pitch

Amie Kaufman's Catch My Pitch

Janice Hardy's Here's the Pitch

Hallie Ephron's Crafting Your Pitch

Query Tracker's Writing a Logline/The One-Sentence Pitch

Michelle McLean's How to Write a Hook Line or Logline

Christopher Lockhart's The Construction of a Logline




I hope these help if you've found yourself in the same situation I continue to stumble into :)