YA Lit/writing event
So my local library is gearing up for Nanowrimo in a big way, at least on the teen front. I've asked about the adult side of the coin and there is some furious discussions about the idea, so hopefully something will happen on that front. I didn't realize how much I missed having real people to talk to about writing. Not that the Internet isn't lovely (I do love you all really), it's just isolating at times, too.
Tonight they had the first of YA lit/writing events with several authors doing a roundtable discussion/Q&A. They also invited the teen librarian to give her perspective on Nanowrimo and reading. The first panel was all about "rough drafts" and the process, rather than the business/market side of things author events get bogged down on lately. The authors were Diana Peterfreund, Jessica Spotswood, and Jon Skovron. I was only vaguely familiar with Peterfreund; she'd done a book signing at One More Page fairly recently. Her "For Darkness Shows the Stars" is a science fiction version of Jane Austen's "Persuasion". The second book in the series "Across a Star Swept Sea" started life as Scarlet Pimpernel in space. The other two authors I wasn't as familiar with, but they gave some good advice about outlines and when to start projects and how to juggle real life/writing. (What I gathered from this is wishing my commute was longer -- mine is strangely too short for writing or podcasts/audiobooks anymore.) A lot of audience were would-be authors.
Right now, I'm trying to nudge the writing brain into moving by pinning ideas and trying to find a short pre-Nano project to get me going. I did scribble a little of that OUAT idea I had (i.e. who really wrote the storybook?), but I realized how problematic the approach was...
Tonight they had the first of YA lit/writing events with several authors doing a roundtable discussion/Q&A. They also invited the teen librarian to give her perspective on Nanowrimo and reading. The first panel was all about "rough drafts" and the process, rather than the business/market side of things author events get bogged down on lately. The authors were Diana Peterfreund, Jessica Spotswood, and Jon Skovron. I was only vaguely familiar with Peterfreund; she'd done a book signing at One More Page fairly recently. Her "For Darkness Shows the Stars" is a science fiction version of Jane Austen's "Persuasion". The second book in the series "Across a Star Swept Sea" started life as Scarlet Pimpernel in space. The other two authors I wasn't as familiar with, but they gave some good advice about outlines and when to start projects and how to juggle real life/writing. (What I gathered from this is wishing my commute was longer -- mine is strangely too short for writing or podcasts/audiobooks anymore.) A lot of audience were would-be authors.
Right now, I'm trying to nudge the writing brain into moving by pinning ideas and trying to find a short pre-Nano project to get me going. I did scribble a little of that OUAT idea I had (i.e. who really wrote the storybook?), but I realized how problematic the approach was...