My experience with #PitDark

Spoiler alert: You will need a Twitter account for this one.

Diliny M. De Alwis

24 May 2024 — 5 min read

Indus River Valley Seal (Source)

Query Trenches

My experience with #PitDark

There’s unexpected good news here. Effort was high. Stress was high. I got good at writing a pitch — having to write 12 versions will do that. I made many connections with authors. I received one ❤️ from an agent.

I set up a new Twitter account. By early 2023, I had torched my account from 2009. @dmdealwis on Twitter: Day 1—Zero followers. [Note by late 2024 I would torch my twitter account after getting up to 500+ followers. The most recent ones being bots. I am no longer on X, find me on Bluesky.]

001 | Audience & Animals?

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I've been firing on all cylinders in the last week. My daughter caught a debilitating stomach virus. I ended up self-medicating with YouTube videos and experimented with social media. I rubbed my daughter's belly and sang, "belly ache, belly ache, go away, go away." She's better now.

The Pink Eye Yaksha

Yaksha/demons are significant in Sri Lanka as representations of illness or distress. I felt, as I was writing IOD that this was appropriate to bring a historic norm to the modern era.

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