While I hate to say it, not much happened this week on the
detective novel front. My editor is alive, I’m sure of it. People are posting
photos of him on Facebook. Good to know. I know that I wasn’t quite right for a
week or so after Comic-Con so I can only imagine Burning Man takes some time to
get over. From what I know about the event it sounds quite intense, a sort of mix
of art and survival skills. As hard as SDCC is, Burning Man sounds worse.
I put my own rewrites on hold because I had an idea I wanted
to work out for the still non-existent- someday-going-to-be comic book. I won’t
go into too many details, but it’s called Mathmagical and has to do with the
Napoleon Theorem being used as a portal.
The idea took most of the week to write, read and edit. The script ended
up being 30 pages and about 6400 words. My editor/co-writer is my son, Paul, so
with the demands of his own college coursework, I’m not expecting any feedback
anytime soon. But the more important thing for me was to write it out and at
least get it down on paper, or at least a Word document.
I did some research work on agents, though I didn’t send any
queries this week. I discovered, by
following an agent on Twitter, that there
is something called #Pitmad. It’s sort of like a group pitch session, but
instead of the speed-dating type you do at writer’s conferences, you have to
summarize your 90,000 word novel to 140 characters. As impossible as that might
sound apparently a lot of agents pay attention to it. I was interested in
trying it, but, of course, I found out about this on September 10th
and #Pitmad was September 9th. I know they had something similar
called #PitchWars, so I’m sure what goes around will come around again and
something similar will come again.
I spent a good part of Saturday and this morning working on
a future review for Trophy Unlocked of Stagecoach (1939). That worked out to be
about 4000 words; so much to say about a really good film. I’m hoping to post it in November. We’re
doing a salute to silent films during September (posted Tillie’s Punctured Romance on Saturday) and horror films in October, so I’m hoping to post it
before we move onto holiday films in December.
Next week, I’m getting back to my rewrites and I hope to
locate my editor. Wish me luck.
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