Pitch-a-Week Part 24: Teenie's Blues and an aside

[sdemory]

Aside: I'm taking a break on the Pitch-A-Week
thing, as I'm going to spend the rest of the year's writing time turning this pitch into a novel. So, if anyone would like to ship me a pitch to post, I'd happily pop it up for fives or even tens of people to look over in mute awe. Let me know. Pitch: Ex-con gang boss gets back in the game to clear his

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[chronovore]

This has much promise, but with any con-man job, it's always about the character interaction, people outsmarting each other. I am looking forward to some of that in this setting.

[sdemory]

That's the goal. Desamours lives and dies either by being overestimated by the powerless and underestimated by the powerful. Thus, the interaction's a big part of this.

At the end, though, it's all muscle in the dark.

Four hundred words a day, baby. Four hundred words a day.