2010

JANUARY IS ALL ABOUT BEGINNINGS!

7th: Should There Even BE A Young Adult Category? What are the pros and cons of age categorizations in children’s literature? Does it promote or hinder reading habits?

14th: Agent Mary Kole (Andrea Brown Literary Agency):  ”Novel Beginnings” submissions contest. Innovative agent Mary Kole is running a submissions contest from her blog at kidlit.com. Come and ask her any questions that aren’t covered in her contest blog post.

21th:   How Do We Know If Our Story Concept Is Good Enough? And What’s ‘High Concept’ Anyway? Special Guest: NY Times bestselling YA author Ellen Hopkins.

28th:  How To Hook Agents, Editors and Readers From The First Page (postponed)

FANTASTIC FEBRUARY

4th:  What Is The Enduring Appeal of Fantasy?

11th:  Does Fantasy Deserve A Place In The Classroom?

18th:  Where Do You Get Your Ideas? And How Much Do They Change From Conception to Completion? (Suggested by Scribblerati member @SheviStories – thanks, Shevi!)

25th: Steampunk Gains Steam: YA author Kate Milford and her agent, Ann Behar of Scovil Chichak Galen Literary Agency, join ScribeChat to explore the Steampunk subgenre.

MARCH MADNESS:

4th: Finding The Balance: Is the pressure to develop an online presence a useless time suck or a necessary and valuable strategy?

11th: How To Write a Selling Synopsis Without Losing Your Mind

18th: The Unique Appeal of Flawed Characters

25th: Writing Under The Influence: Do you wait for the Muse to visit? Or go after her with a club?

APRIL FOOL

1st: The Secret to Writing Humor

8th: The Dark Allure of Romantic Literature (Transcript)

15th: Postponed due to #YALitChat’s two-day event.

22nd: It’s Conference Season!

29th: Identifying and Developing Dramatically Rich New Story Ideas

MAY:

6th:  Creating Characters That Stand Out

13th:  Writing Romance

20th:  Mastering The Art of The One Sentence Pitch

27th: Irresistible Titles: How To Find One and Why You Should Bother

JUNE

3rd: How To Self-Edit Your Manuscript

10th: The Storytelling Power of Point of View

17th: Building an Effective Writer’s Blog

JULY

1st:  Breaking Out in Today’s Tough Publishing Environment

8th:  How Do You Organize the Time and Space to Write?

15th:  Into The Fray—The Best and Worst Ways to Open Your Novel

22nd:  The Game’s Afoot—Beating a Path Through The Middle of Your Novel

29th:  Discussion of THE FOREST FOR THE TREES by Betsy Lerner

AUGUST

2nd:  Into the Sunset: Ending Your Novel (Guest post: by Les Edgerton, author of “Hooked: Write Fiction That Grabs Readers at Page One and Never Lets Them Go)

9th: Open Mic Night – Cursing and Censorship

18th: World-building with Lisa Gail Green

23rd:

30th:

SEPTEMBER

OCTOBER

The Submissions Process—query letters, synopses, find and choosing the write agent/editor

NOVEMBER

DECEMBER