February 24, 2008
TV Guide Time
Swiped from The Swivet*:
“I tell people that I want to see your plot summed up like a TV Guide entry: three sentences. No more. If a writer can’t do that, I know there’s something missing.”
So, let’s play a game. Can you condense your project down to three lines????
9:00 PM Sunday Night - Scifi: Set in a post-apocalyptic world, mutant rebels try to overthrow the government that wants to annihilate them.
Oooooooooo one sentence! Okay it’s your turn. GO! 
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*Editors comment to La Gringa was tongue-in-cheek but I think there’s something to be said for being able to condense your story down to a line…or three. If nothing else, it’s a great exercise in the importance of word choice/usage/phrasing.
Operation: Eden 8:00p.m. Sunday - Comedy. Jared plots to get Eden to see him as something other than a good pal. (30 mins. CC/HD/MA)
LOL Bailey! I could give mine a MALSV* FER SHER!!!!!!!!
*MALSV–mature audiences, contains language, sex and violence
Hilary Sares had us do that for pitching to her. It’s really useful and I did it for all my books. I haven’t done it for any of my new projects (I usually do that AFTER). LOL.
Here’s the one I did for my book The Pirate’s Booty.
To save her business, Renee crashes a party thrown by the descendant of a pirate. She plans to steal back a brooch taken from her ancestor centuries ago. But what she doesn’t realize is that it’s a sex party, and Devon Murray is as notorious as his pirate ancestor.
I do this for all of my books. Here’s the vone for AHRODITE’S BREW, coming out in a week:
“It’s just a restorative tonic for women, but it turns out to have an entirely different effect on men. And the bachelors of the Ton are running scared.”
Delle Jacobs
LOL Delle that definitely makes me want to read/watch!!!
Am I the only one who’s never heard of this?
Geez…which wip?
Lessee…
8:00 P.M. Saturday Night:
“The Last Man On Earth”: Trapped and stranded by a storm, two old friends decide to become lovers. Now, if only the Apocalypse wouldn’t keep getting in the way…”
12:00 A.M. Friday the 13th:
“Looking For Mr. Pinky”: A woman with the worst luck on the planet finds it brings her the love of her life.
Cece,
I’ll have to take a pass. I’m too sleepy to think right now. LOL! Um … Boy meets girl. Girl kills boy. Boy and girl fall in love after boy rises from the dead and does a lot of stuff.
Yeah, I know. It’s weak.
Lost meets the Odyssey
Tanya are you recovering from the flu??? How you doing babe?
12:00 A.M. Friday the 13th:
“Looking For Mr. Pinky”: A woman with the worst luck on the planet finds it brings her the love of her life.
LOL@friday the 13th!!!!!
Am I the only one who sees the irony in the WORST luck bringing you the man of your dreams?
Erica…I compared Forbidden to Xmen meets Blade Runner