Lesa Howard's Blog - Posts Tagged "pitch-line"

All day I've worked on a pitch line for my latest work-in-progress. I hate, hate, pitch lines. That's probably because I am very much an ADD plotter, also known as a pantser. I've been known to plot by the seat of my pants. I'm trying to overcome that in the hope of being more organized and thereby more efficient. So today I took on the single sentence summary. It took me the better half of a day, but I finally got something that resembles a pitch line. It still has to be refined, but I understand now why so many writing coaches/teachers consider it so important. It really made me take a look at my character's motivation, wants and desires, and purpose. So, though technically I only wrote one sentence today, I feel like I was successful