tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1017951724114846163.post4576454792346212142..comments2024-02-24T15:14:46.001-05:00Comments on Novel Writing on Edge - Development Maxims and Master Class Narrative From Algonkian: Does the Pitch Tail Wag the Novel Dog?Michael Neffhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01758475229435510284noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1017951724114846163.post-38336752809758697272013-09-12T14:35:03.385-04:002013-09-12T14:35:03.385-04:00Good surprising insight. Somewhere in the writers ...Good surprising insight. Somewhere in the writers conferences and workshops I attended before (and even highly recommended craft books) I got the idea that the pitch was for pitching and nothing else. Now I see I have to pitch it to myself first. Sure hope I catch on.the Port Chicago Witnesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00683288987476466093noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1017951724114846163.post-58244569424645945272011-06-22T18:00:14.877-04:002011-06-22T18:00:14.877-04:00Excellent points, Michael. One of the hardest less...Excellent points, Michael. One of the hardest lessons to learn is how to get your nose off the page to see the "whole". Not surprisingly, only if you can, in fact, see the "whole", can you then reduce the novel into the pithiest two or three liner, which expresses the whole narrative thrust...or more simply said, the point of the book.Mary E. Martinhttp://remembrancetrilogy.comnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1017951724114846163.post-20426989229988861532011-05-06T23:45:45.216-04:002011-05-06T23:45:45.216-04:00Thanks, PW. I also experienced that OMG moment.Thanks, PW. I also experienced that OMG moment.Michaelnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1017951724114846163.post-63184307182908656142011-05-04T12:44:21.406-04:002011-05-04T12:44:21.406-04:00Great perspective Michael. I think it stems from t...Great perspective Michael. I think it stems from the maturity of the writer. When you first start out and hear all the dreadful stories of rejection by the greats like King and Gaiman, you never really feel it. You just don't 'get' it. Only after you've matured do you really start to understand, you learn through experience. You learn about the industry, the agents, the process and eventually you come to a point when you look at that first attempt you see clear as day how bad it really was back then.<br />There's no getting around immaturity as a writer, you mature through experience.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01046515540256155412noreply@blogger.com