Top 20 | The Housework Can Wait

Welcome to Week 2 of my new feature, where I come up with a book pitch inspired by a routine from last night’s episode of So You Think You Can Dance. These won’t necessarily be my favorite dances or dancers, just dances that inspire some sort of story in my mind.

But in case you’re wondering, this is my favorite couple this season. And as a bonus, if an author ever decides to take me up on one of these pitches (because goodness knows I’m not going to write them) and picks a dance with Matthew, and then if their book is adapted into a movie, it can star Ryan Gosling. Because seriously, Matthew looks like dancing Ryan Gosling.

I’m going to honestly be surprised if there’s not a Dancing Gosling Twitter avatar and Tumblr by the end of the season, complete with dancing “Hey Girl” memes.

But I digress.

Song: Hear Me Now (Dri, Lind & Lukka Mix) by Steed Lord

Choreographer: Sonya Tayeh

Dancers: Matthew and Audrey

Pitch: In a future where personal interaction has been banned and all contact must be virtual, a lonely young scientist creates a robotic companion to keep him company. But when she unexpectedly develops her own personality and desires, he realizes he may have gotten in over his head.

Suggested Author: Myra McEntire (She writes relationships so well that I think she could make this semi-creepy concept seem not so creepy)

So You Think You Can Dance airs on FOX on Wednesdays at 8 EST. And no, they don’t have any idea who I am.

SYTYCD Book Pitch – Season 9 Week 1

The Original SYTYCD Book Pitch Post

So this past Tuesday, I wrote a post of (fake) book pitches inspired by So You Think You Can Dance routines. And I was totally blown away by how awesome the feedback was. Turns out there’s a lot of SYTYCD fans among us bookish types! Not only was the feedback amazing, but it also became my most-viewed post and my highest-traffic day ever, all within 24 hours of the post going up. Now, I’m not expecting lightning to strike twice, but it seems to me that this dance+book thing is a thing that people seem to like.

So considering the feedback, plus the fact that I absolutely loved writing that post, I tried to think about how I could incorporate something like it into my regular blogging routine. And here’s what I’ve come up with.

Each week, on the day after the show, I’ll put up a post selecting one dance from the night before, and I’ll do a book pitch inspired by it, complete with an author I think could pull it off. It won’t necessarily be my favorite dance of the night, or the best-executed dance; it’ll just be the one that inspires me the most to come up with a story idea.

Although for this week, let me just state for the record, I loved this dance. Loved. I want Christopher Scott to come choreograph my life.

And then I’ll need someone to dance it for me too, because I’m woefully uncoordinated.

Song: Architect of the Mind by Kerry Muzzey

Choreographer: Christopher Scott

Dancers: Top 20

Pitch: A teen prodigy is pulled out of his high school classroom and thrown into a top-secret think tank with one mission: find a way to prevent the imminent end of the world.

Suggested Author: James Dashner

Were any of last night’s dances particularly inspiring to you?

So You Think You Can Dance airs Wednesdays on FOX at 8 p.m. EST.