I recently figured out how to write this second novella. But I'm in yet the same pickle again.
By the premise, it's sounds like some dark contemporary: a boarding school run-away falling off the sky-city, befriends a prostitute, a drug-dealer, and another run-away in hopes of finding a life worth living.
Yet I find this log-line has drawbacks: the actual novella is executed more like a YA science fiction. The main character is nearly injured, has to live the rest of his life as a cyborg, and his limbs are haphazardly cobbled together and must take drugs to dull away the pain.
So I'm not really sure how to reword the pitch.
Edit: The other problem is it's set in purgatory; not the literal purgatory but rather a physical Earthly purgatory. Though I would prefer the reader to interpret it however they want, even if it's a literal purgatory.
By the premise, it's sounds like some dark contemporary: a boarding school run-away falling off the sky-city, befriends a prostitute, a drug-dealer, and another run-away in hopes of finding a life worth living.
Yet I find this log-line has drawbacks: the actual novella is executed more like a YA science fiction. The main character is nearly injured, has to live the rest of his life as a cyborg, and his limbs are haphazardly cobbled together and must take drugs to dull away the pain.
So I'm not really sure how to reword the pitch.
Edit: The other problem is it's set in purgatory; not the literal purgatory but rather a physical Earthly purgatory. Though I would prefer the reader to interpret it however they want, even if it's a literal purgatory.
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