I’ve laid out a nine step process to write and deliver a great pitch. If you are pitching an agent or an editor you might not know what they are really looking for. Even if you are pitching your friends or neighbors you might not know what they like to read. Second, you probably don’t know your audience well. You see its beauty and its potential, but will they? They might reject it without really looking at it, or hold it only to drop it, or laugh at it. I think of it as opening a massive safe and pulling out a fragile egg. Telling someone, anyone, about your writing is an opportunity to share your passion, your imagination, your heart. Maybe it is a work in progress or maybe it is polished and ready to go out into the world, but in either case it is yours. You’ve created something and committed it to paper. Speaking to someone, often a perfect stranger, about your writing is all about taking a risk. Sitting with someone, face to face and explaining your novel is challenging.įirst off, it is scary.
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