Yesterday on Twitter, the lovely Weronika Janczuk announced that she was challenging herself to write 10,000 words this weekend and inviting anyone to join her. I have about a billion-ty words to write to fix what I broke in Incubus. So, I am taking Weronika up on her challenge. Of course, I don’t write on [...]
Yesterday was Wednesday, which means normally I would have participated in Road Trip Wednesday with the wonderful folks over at YA Highway, but instead I didn’t post at all. It’s ’cause yesterdays RTW question was If literary characters had twitter accounts, whose tweets would you follow? and I just couldn’t bring myself to answer that [...]
The topic of YA Lit Chat on Twitter a couple weeks ago was trend in YA. I participated in a small chunk of the chat, but left early once I realized: Why am I spending time talking about trends instead of writing? Anyone who reads can recognize certain trends rolling through books, YA or otherwise. [...]
Last week, there was a great “Gender in YA” discussion going on over at Twitter (spearheaded by the talented Maureen Johnson, who them promptly disappeared so she could make her deadline). One of the things that came up quite quickly in the discussion is that many female writers feel uncomfortable writing a book from a [...]
*Rant alert* Every Wednesday night, there is a YA lit chat on Twitter. A bunch of YA authors, editors, readers, whatever get together to talk about all things Young Adult. Some weeks we just have free discussion; other weeks there is a specific topic. I was not able to participate in YAlitchat last night, but [...]
