Thanks to starting the Couch to 5K course with Writers’ HQ and finding my writing buddy, Elizabeth, I’m back to writing. In addition to meeting weekly with Elizabeth on Google Meets, I am taking a live Plotstormers Lite course to help plot out my new children’s story.
Last week, I write the ‘elevator pitch’ (in other words, if you were with someone in a lift, how you would sell your stsory idea), and then posted it in the writing group forum for feedback. This was nerver-wracking but very helpful as one simple comment (‘how about raising the stakes’) has made my story already so much more exciting.
The exercise I worked on last night was creating the four-point plan – the bare bones of an outline. As I have already had a stab at outlining this story, this was quite straightforward, and I have been able to incorporate the feedback from the pitch, too. The next step is to expand this into a seven-point plan which I will perhaps work on tomorrow.
It feels good to be writing again and starting something new and completely different. Whereas my first incomplete novel was in the women’s fiction genre, this story is children’s fantasy.
The elevator pitch (revised):
A young witch, Hazel, needs to save her aunt from unjust persecution, so she wants to find the legendary Heart of the Moors, an artefact that is supposed to give the holder great magical powers. She hopes to learn more about her magic and her past, but she must overcome the prejudice of her community and her own doubts about her gifts to save her aunt – and the whole village.
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