Today’s scribbling is actual content! A review of the second Rathbone and Bruce Sherlock Homes movie, The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Tomorrow I will add pictures and put it on Facebook.

The third total rewrite of my first pitch to Cracked is done and submitted.

Now I just need to totally rewrite my second pitch to them as well…

No, time to take a break from pitches and research for a while. Tomorrow I may try to do something entirely different. We’ll see.

Not really much else to say! Might try to do some Actual Content for this weekend, even if it’s just reviewing another Sherlock Holmes film…need a break from pitches and novel rewrites.

Today was a much better day than yesterday. A bit of better luck in research, a couple of good ideas. and suddenly this thing is almost good to go! Almost, but not quite. Still need a couple of backups and a stronger source for one of the entries. Chugging along…

Today was not a successful evening for writing. Rewriting of one pitch has stalled due to lack of inspiration/material, second pitch has also been knocked back for rewrite, novel sitting at 50%…bah. If I don’t get any decent stuff for the articles tomorrow I may have to resort to film reviews to fill my scribbling quota.

I’m hoping so! It’s definitely coming together a lot better so far, the only real issue is finding material. Research-digging tomorrow, I think.

Now I need to go and rewrite the first one based on editorial feedback. I do feel better about this second one though – could definitely go places!

Today I checked on my second pitch for Cracked, and it was 500 words too long. This meant rewriting it, which has somehow translated to turning it from six entries into ten. Not sure how that works.

Or rather, trying to – I’ve finished the sample entry, but I still need to find sources for the other entries and the backups. Plus a possible attempt to make the whole thing a bit funnier.

Today’s scribbling consisted mostly of more research and writing for my second Cracked pitch. It’s a pretty hefty piece of work – I’m still working on the sample entry, and it’s big enough that this may be only a four-item list to stay under the wordcount. In other news, my first pitch got knocked back for another rewrite (too zany), so I may pull out the sample from that and stick it up here for you over the weekend while I rewrite it.