So Hot Right Now - the YA Market -- by Vanessa Barneveld

Tina Ferraro, Juli Heaton, Allison Rushby and
Niki Burnham all contributed to this YA article for Romance Writers of Australia.

Flux editor Andrew
Karre and agent Michael Bourret also gave up some valuable tips on
what's selling.


You can read the article here --

http://www.romanceaustralia.com/articles/sohot.htm

Here's a link to Vanessa's site http://www.vanessabarneveld.com

This week I'm studying writing Scenes

As part of my process for revising my novel - I'm studying what authors have to say about writing scenes.

I found this great site Scenes Beginning Middle and Ending

Check weekly here - about Publishing Moves

Author Nathaniel Lachenmeyer lists publishing moves on his website.

Check out his books and website -- http://www.nathaniellachenmeyer.com/



Check out Publishing Moves --
http://www.nathaniellachenmeyer.com/PublishingMoves.html

Just in case you came by today looking for a writing related website. . .

Check out http://forums.institutechildrenslit.com:6080/chat/world/html/index.html

There's a great Open Forum every Tuesday - you'll need to download the chat gizmo.

Enjoy the process!

Do you ever give yourself a word limit to write before you can blog or read emails, etc?

This week I've joined the Fast Draft Express - which is working out great for me in getting myself back to 'writing' as fast as I can type - - ususally I blurt out about 600 words in a sitting then take a break and move me and the laptop to another location and blurt out some more.
I say 'blurt' because it's mostly dialogue and I barely look at what I'm typing - so my 'inner editor' doesn't show up and start reading what's on the page.

Today's total is 1,800 words

I have more time to write but I'm going to use it to prepare a chapter to bring to my critique group tomorrow.

Enjoy the process!

Harold Underdown answers - What Is a Synopsis?

Many children's writers are familiar with and use Harold Underdown's Purple Crayon website

I recently discovered that he has a blog where h answers questions sent in by writers.


Go to this link and scroll down to the questio - What Is a Synopsis


http://www.underdown.org/blog_306.htm

Overcoming the Fear of Writing a Synopsis

Here's another approach to writing a synopsis--

http://www.poewar.com/archives/2005/03/04/overcoming-the-fear-of-writing-a-synopsis-2/

5 Steps to writing a SYNOPSIS

Vivian Beck, a literary agent, guides you throuh the five steps of writing a synopsis at this website:


http://www.vivianbeck.com/writing/5_steps_to_writing_a_synopsis.htm

Check out more of her writing tips at:

http://www.vivianbeck.com/writingtips.htm