{"id":1327,"date":"2019-09-25T07:03:19","date_gmt":"2019-09-25T11:03:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/?p=1327"},"modified":"2019-09-25T07:16:31","modified_gmt":"2019-09-25T11:16:31","slug":"pitch-wars-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/victoriafeistner.com\/blog\/2019\/09\/25\/pitch-wars-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Pitch Wars 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m currently sitting in a restaurant in York, awaiting my first full English breakfast in a very long time–Ean’s first FEB\u2122 ever–and coming down from a high of anxiety. See, this morning was the opening of Pitch Wars, and though this is probably entirely in my own head, it feels like Blackout Odyssey<\/em>‘s “last chance”.<\/p>\n

To add to the pressure, I am on the road without my compy, so I did as much prep work as I could before I left: researched and chose mentor-picks; formatted the sample and the full manuscript to PitchWars specs; wrote individual query letters. All that so on the day all I had to do was attach the files and hit send.<\/p>\n

Either I got my wires crossed or the specs were ambiguous because none of that was necessary. There was a form to submit to all four picks at once, which required a generic query letter, a pasted version of the synopsis (which I hadn’t prepped a head of time) and a pasted version of the sample.<\/p>\n

Luckily my pre-travel anxiety worked in my favour because I had a back-up plan, namely, a user on Ean’s tablet, complete with authorized chrome login (no phone to do two-factor with!) so I could go into Google Drive and deal with the necessary changes to my plan.<\/p>\n

So all’s well that ends well, anxiety spike or no, and BOO is off into the aether for one last time. I don’t expect much, and am anticipating the novel going into a drawer for the foreseeable future, but there’s nothing to lose by entering. So fingers crossed and wish me luck.<\/p>\n

Here’s comes my breakfast. That’s a better item for my focus \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

See you in October!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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