1836. 14-year-old Lu runs a London hotel very competently, thank you very much. A hotel with absolutely no reanimated corpses in the basement, or blonde teenage trainee doctors with twinkling eyes, too many ideas and a lax approach to morality.
#questpit
#w
#mg
#h
LORD OF THE FLIES x THE ASH HOUSE
8 children. one games master. he’s a child too, but he’s not like them: the house they’ve been left at for the summer is his, and he commands it. trapped, they might just survive— but not intact.
#QuestPit
#MG
#H
#Q
don’t mind me, I’m going to keep reposting the
#QuestPit
pitches i come across because they are all brilliant and deserve it. need everyone to be published lavishly and expeditiously so i can feed my hungry tbr 👀
the thing about
#QuestPit
is that seeing multiple projects for one author means i’m not just discovering projects i like— i’m realising how many people are going to become my favourite authors as a whole 😭
hello new
#QuestPit
friends!! I’ve loved seeing people do these so thought I’d do a self intro!
have a pic of me in my natural habitat (✨history✨) I’m M, i write MG/YA/a dash of NA. usually gothic/magical realism, always queer. definitely want to be your beta. GMT +1 📍
🫶🏼🥰
anyone doing
#SmallPit
, I’d love to boost your posts tomorrow!! let me know if you’d like to be on my list, there’s plenty of room left on it :)
#WritingCommunity
When Edward and his parents move to a century-old house, he finds the diaries of another 16-year-old boy who lived here in the 1920s. Can you fall in love through reading someone’s diaries? And why do the shadows seem increasingly solid lately?
#QuestPit
#YA
#W
@RosieeThor
1. Tom Riddle’s backstory/characters’ backstories generally done w no curiosity
2. THE MAGIC. WANDS ARE NOT GUNS ???? SPELLS MEAN THINGS, THEYRE NOT JUST MEANINGLESS BANGS OF SFX?
DEAD BOY DETECTIVES x AVELINE JONES
what happens when a REAL detective (12-year-olds can be real detectives, okay) is confronted with an impossible problem to solve? not starting-middle-school impossible. suddenly-seeing-ghosts impossible.
👻🔍
#QuestPit
#MG
#W
Aaaah happy birthday to one of the most sonically coherent, innovative albums I’ve had the pleasure to listen to. And it just keeps getting better. Can’t wait to here more ieu x
@SketchesbyBoze
breakfast of champions by Kurt Vonnegut might fit the bill too— starts weird, gets weirder, becomes EXTREMELY weird. also breaks the fourth wall!
1836. 14-year-old Lu runs a London hotel very competently, thank you very much. A hotel with absolutely no reanimated corpses in the basement, or blonde teenage trainee doctors with twinkling eyes, too many ideas and a lax approach to morality.
#questpit
#w
#mg
#h
QueerPit was such a delight— emotional and lying wide awake in bed grateful for fellow writer pals!! proof that writing doesn’t have to be isolating or lonely 🤝 everyone is brimming with such good ideas, and I can’t wait to read them all 😭
i planned to do QueerPit as a way to gently ease into querying. did not even remotely imagine the enthusiasm for my sweet (and sometimes scary) little stories!! even got some agent likes?? couldn’t have asked for a kinder start to the querying journey 🥹 thank you guys so much!!
Feeling Things about the fact that now whenever any of us feel discouraged/the dreaded impostor syndrome-adjacent emotions, we just need to look at our
#QuestPit
posts and remember how excited everyone else was about our work. what a community to be a part of honestly 🫶🏼
does anyone else make themselves bracelets to wear for each wip? these fully got me through last summer finishing both these MS.. and now through edits too 😅
#amquerying
#amwriting
time for me to gush about the fact that this author’s debut reframed my idea of what YA can do. i will read everything they write forever please and thank you
So my book about 2 ex best friends who propose a competition to earn the heart of the new girl and start to accidentally fall for each other is coming out in 13 days
LORD OF THE FLIES x THE ASH HOUSE
8 children. one games master. he’s a child too, but he’s not like them: the house they’ve been left at for the summer is his, and he commands it. trapped, they might just survive— but not intact.
#QuestPit
#MG
#H
#Q
When Edward and his parents move to a century-old house, he finds the diaries of another 16-year-old boy who lived here in the 1920s. Can you fall in love through reading someone’s diaries? And why do the shadows seem increasingly solid lately?
#QuestPit
#YA
#W
@iSmashFizzle
@coffeespoonie
my 6th grade English teacher insisted my low self confidence was “false modesty” and once publicly called me out on a confidential self assessment, telling me ‘nobody likes false modesty’. she really hated trilingualism.
ok this QueerPit confirms it: pitch events are my favourite thing. seeing everyone’s incredible stories gives me so much hope for this industry!! and so many stories have already left an impression on me, even with just a pitch tweet. 🫶🏼😭
this is such kind advice— it got me thinking. for a bit of uplift after
#QueerPit
and
#QuestPit
, anyone want to share their favourite feedback they’ve ever gotten on one of their stories? mine is “I think Mary Shelley would have gone fully feral for this”
#WritingCommunity
@notonlyicarus
Good luck! Keep celebrating those milestones.
If you do get rejections remember those happen to the best authors in the world. I actually recommend creating a rejection/positivity box filled with chocolate & book gift tokens. Keep pitching & tweaking whenever you get feedback.
anyone doing
#SmallPit
, I’d love to boost your posts tomorrow!! let me know if you’d like to be on my list, there’s plenty of room left on it :)
#WritingCommunity
#amquerying
friends, extremely newbie question: when an agent asks for the first however many pages of a MS, are we talking Times New Roman double-spaced, or is that my academia hangover talking
fellow writing/reading pals!! I’ll be doing both
#questpit
and
#queerpit
and am 🤩. this’ll be my second ever pitch event and my fav part of the first one was internalising how many incredible stories are out there. let me know if you’re participating too!! 🤝
BUM BADA BUM BUM🥁
we have a date!! the summer season of
#questpit
will take place all day, any time zone July 3rd!
rules will be listed below and at the 🔗 we have on our page! please also be aware of the new hashtags we’ll be using to provide more clarity!
hi happy pride month from local angry queer, directing all energy to blm and trans lives esp during pride month bc the fight will never be over let’s go
never not shouting about how this is The ya novel. you think you’re going to get excellent, heartfelt plot, iconic moments and clever characterisation (and you absolutely do). you are ALSO left with characters you will never forget and the type of hope that roots itself deep.
LORD OF THE FLIES x THE ASH HOUSE
Quentin knows he takes too much responsibility for things. but, trapped for the summer with 7 other kids and 14-year-old games master Alistair, it’s up to him to play the game his way. they might escape— but not unscathed.
#QueerPit
#MG
#H
in March 2023 i figured out how i write/draft best, & it all started with this self-built solo writing retreat. i scribbled out 30k words in one week and got to know myself a lot better as a writer 😅
#WritingCommmunity
#amwriting
@chxryoung
i’m so glad you know better than to believe him!! your questpit pitch was so memorable, can’t imagine how much more so your writing must be!!!
@tayberryjelly
's beautiful, queer upper MG novel in verse is the PERFECT summer read if you want to feel absolutely transported to the beach 🌊 I highly recommend this gorgeous, coming-of-age story and can't speak highly enough about this book 🌈
#queer
#LGBTQ
#bookreviews
DEAD BOY DETECTIVES x AVELINE JONES
what happens when a REAL detective (12-year-olds can be real detectives, okay) is confronted with an impossible problem to solve? not starting-middle-school impossible. suddenly-seeing-ghosts impossible.
👻🔍
#QuestPit
#MG
#W
Writers: what was your very first influence? What put you on the path? What made you want to do this?
I have two: the one that got me into writing was Fallen, and the one that made me realize I could do it for real was The Night Circus
Happy Birthday, Book 2. Though we have a complicated relationship, you have a piece of my heart and soul, always and forever.
If you'd like a story about 2 ex besties fighting for the same girl and falling for each other, I hope you'll consider this one!
@AdamSilvera
you made your existence into something that little kids everywhere can look at and say "maybe I'm not alone". a hell of a review, I'd say.
LORD OF THE FLIES x THE ASH HOUSE
8 children trapped🏚️
1 games master
they can:
flight (the forest looks different at night)
fight (all it takes is a scalpel)
freeze (don’t make a sound)
fawn (pretty dresses are useful after all)
understand— but is that enough?
#QueerPit
#MG
#H
I am SO passionate about this. so much of what I write has 14 year old MCs!! they can skew MG or YA depending on context and subject matter but. 12-15 is when I found reading the hardest. everything felt either For Kids or For 17 Year Olds.
We need more upper MG and lower YA books, and no they’re not the same.
I want more YA books about freshmen and sophomore experiences and less about the first year of college. There is a HUGE gap there & it’s affecting readership in our high schools.
but yeah, if people who are ill could stay the fuck home please, I take every precaution I can (vaccines/every vitamin conceivable/all kinds of herbal tea/preventive medicine) but if you’re sick I will get sick and I’ve been in bed the last 2 weeks of my undergrad n I’m angry
i have a MG series as a wip where pet familiars play a huge role… and a NA novella where the romance is experienced largely through the perspective of both parties’ pets 😂
@Adri_Writer
ahhh what a cool idea!! I’m querying my MG horror (lord of the flies x the ash house) and my YA contemp romance (emma x sex education)
.. and writing about 15 WIPs (across MG, YA and NA, space and time) in constant conjunction because I am a fan of chaos and disorder (help)
when I was 14, my dad forbade me from inventing/telling my stories. the things he said to me that day still stick with me. a lot of what I do now is for that 14 year old kid who, briefly, considered listening to him.
“writing will get you nowhere”
a statement uttered by my dad this morning when i told him about my dream of being a writer
it was designed to knock my confidence, but if anything, it’s made me all the more determined to prove him and anyone else who doubts me wrong 🫡💪🏼
@saiIormood
@OrmondDerrick
Yes?? Melodrama is the only album that allows me to both abstract and be connected to my environment bc it is so real to me that I can’t quite disappear off into my thoughts but somehow listening is also a very reflective moment
@sarahgwrites75
ahhh welcome to pitching on here!! I’ve only done a couple of events but from what I’ve learned: making lists is key, and on the day, space out your posts and spend time commenting/interacting with people’s posts!! best way to make friends as well :) I’ll add you to my list!!