I'm not a teacher, so why is it that creative teachers make me soooo happy? And why do articles like Kate Messner's piece in School Library Journal about using Twitter in the classroom make me want to borrow a few eager students for the day just to try out her list of ideas?
I think it's partly because she's so darn organized about it---offering a sample proposal to bring to the administration for approval, a list of Twitter resources, and several concrete examples of how her students benefitted from their use of a new technology. She makes me feel---despite the fact that I have no teaching experience, that I don't know the first thing about school policies, that I don't even have any students, for pity's sake! --- that I could do it too. Which, I guess, is the secret weapon of all great teachers. They inspire us to imagine what we could be.
Disclaimer: Kate opens the article with a story about her class participating in my Twitter chat with editor Cheryl Klein about the creation of OPERATION YES. I'm thrilled about that, but even without my book being mentioned, it would be a fantastic article. Go read!
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Wednesday, December 2, 2009
Tuesday, September 29, 2009
Want TWO peeks inside an editor's brain?
Twitter.com
Hashtag: #YESChat
Tweeting from @saralewisholmes and @chavelaque
Questions answered at the end of the chat
Twitter help: InkyGirl's Twitter Chats for Writers
How to win a signed copy of Operation Yes
revealed at the end of the chat!
Conversation will be archived
One more amazing thing: Cheryl just posted an essay at the Scholastic On Our Minds blog. She tells how reading an author's blog---yes, this blog you're reading now---helped her acquire Operation Yes. (I'm suddenly terrified in hindsight!)
Sunday, September 27, 2009
The 2009 National Book Festival, Snapped and Tweeted
Saturday was my third time attending the National Book Festival. This time, I remembered my regular camera and I attempted a live tweeted commentary from my cell phone as I watched. I began with this tweet:
By the end of the day, it was "books, books, books and rain," but no matter. The crowds were larger than the year before, the tents were packed with wow-worthy authors, and I arrived early enough to get both a free bag and a free, gloriously image-jammed poster. And to my amusement, I looked semi-official, because the Festival's go-to color was purple, and I had (because of the threatened rain) worn my royal purple trench coat.
Here's a partial record of my day, in both pictures and tweets. (I'm saving my time in the Poetry Tent for Poetry Friday.) You can find more tweets from other bloggers by searching the hashtag, #nbf. And of course, visit the Library of Congress site for web videos of all the presentations as soon as they are posted.
A NOTE FROM YOUR SPONSOR: Would this be a good time to remind you about the TwitterChat Cheryl Klein and I are having this Wednesday, Sept. 30 at noon EST? All you have to do is sign up for an account at www.twitter.com, then go to www.tweetchat.com on Wednesday. Enter the hashtag you wish to follow: #YESchat, and you're good to go. You don't have to tweet a twit, if you don't want to. You can simply eavesdrop.
Thank you. We now return to the main event:
FINAL TWEET OF THE DAY:
- Books, books, books, no rain!
(I forgot the National Book Festival identifying hashtag, #nbf, but later on, I remembered it. Mostly.)
By the end of the day, it was "books, books, books and rain," but no matter. The crowds were larger than the year before, the tents were packed with wow-worthy authors, and I arrived early enough to get both a free bag and a free, gloriously image-jammed poster. And to my amusement, I looked semi-official, because the Festival's go-to color was purple, and I had (because of the threatened rain) worn my royal purple trench coat.
Here's a partial record of my day, in both pictures and tweets. (I'm saving my time in the Poetry Tent for Poetry Friday.) You can find more tweets from other bloggers by searching the hashtag, #nbf. And of course, visit the Library of Congress site for web videos of all the presentations as soon as they are posted.
A NOTE FROM YOUR SPONSOR: Would this be a good time to remind you about the TwitterChat Cheryl Klein and I are having this Wednesday, Sept. 30 at noon EST? All you have to do is sign up for an account at www.twitter.com, then go to www.tweetchat.com on Wednesday. Enter the hashtag you wish to follow: #YESchat, and you're good to go. You don't have to tweet a twit, if you don't want to. You can simply eavesdrop.
Thank you. We now return to the main event:
Steven Kellogg greets a young fan.
Ambassador Jon Scieszka
(with a kid who looks as mischievous as Jon himself)
The poster is for The Exquisite Corpse,
the new continuing story project
the Library of Congress is hosting at www.read.gov.
Author Nikki Grimes,
one of The Exquisite Corpse co-conspirators
TWEETS:
- Exquisite corpse authors: Katherine Paterson made us do it
- Jon Scieszka says to go to www.read.gov to read about roller skating babies
Banner from the Festival poster,
designed by artist Charles Santore
(three more below)
Festival sponsor, Target, brought in
the cutest, most patient dog
to pose with readers, young and old
TWEETS: (after my Poetry Tent interlude)
- Then i have to choose: lois lowry or jane hirshfield impossible
- Standing in the aisles for lois lowry
Looking over the shoulder of a mom who was wise enough
to buy Lois Lowry's new picture book, Crow Call.
The author spoke about writing it, and her re-acquaintance
with her father, a stranger to her because of World War II
Crowds for Lois Lowry
TWEETS:
- Eating popcorn for lunch
- Listening to sharon creech's hypnotic voice
Note: Sadly, I have no picture of Sharon Creech, but she and her editor did a fabulous tandem reading from her new book, The Unfinished Angel.
(glimpsed through umbrellas at the edge of a packed tent)
TWEETS:
- Bring on Mo!
- Mo: knuffle bunny the musical! at kennedy ctr in may
Note: MotherReader's daughter played the part of Piggie in Mo's staged reading of Today I Will Fly. I'm sure she'll be blogging about it!
TWEETS:
- Patrick Carman: new vest, stretch armstrong & reading
- Next 39 Clues: Australia!
Jeff Kinney reveals new sketches for his next Wimpy Kid book.
This one is of Greg's ideal summer vacation: inside!!!!
TWEETS:
- Bringing in the easel for Jeff Kinney
- Jeff Kinney: I decided to draw as 7 Year old boy so no one would question my ability
- J Kinney: On set of wimpy kid movie watched apple fight
- J Kinney: failure influenced me
- Kid offering two ideas to J Kinney "if you need them"!
I stayed all the way until the last presentation of the Festival
because it was Judy Blume.
TWEETS:
- Up next: judy freakin blume!
- judy blume: i was a shy kid afraid of dogs swimming everything!
- judy blume: i made up all my book reports
- judy blume: i knew i was 70 when i heard it on NPR
- judy blume: Next book set in 1950s
- i want to ask judy blume: how did a shy kid get so brave?
FINAL TWEET OF THE DAY:
- 7 hours of bookfesting I'm beat!
Monday, September 21, 2009
Twiddle or Twitter?
As I see it, next Wednesday, Sept. 30, at noon EST, you have two choices:
1) You can twiddle. Twiddle your thumbs, twiddle your pencil, twiddle away your lunch hour reading 1,000 Dust Motes to Spy Before You Die
OR
2) You can twitter along with Cheryl Klein and me as we chat about OPERATION YES, the writing and editorial process, and which one of us has a marked obsession with pudding.
You can find us in the top secret chat room located under the hashtag #YESchat.
For more about these choices, see Cheryl's post Would you rather . . .? in which she deviously tries to cloud the pudding discussion with pie and cake.
If you have no idea what Twitter is, please see InkyGirl's post "Writer's Guide to Twitter." Hop on the Twitter wagon at Twitter.com, practice a little, and be ready to join us on Sept. 30.
PROGRAMMING NOTE: For the #YESchat, I'll be tweeting from my @saralewisholmes account and Cheryl from @chavelaque. Amusing, informative, and delicious posts will then be re-tweeted at a later time from my @operationyes account. Please feel free to twitter with me on either account beginning today or on any other day ending in Y.
1) You can twiddle. Twiddle your thumbs, twiddle your pencil, twiddle away your lunch hour reading 1,000 Dust Motes to Spy Before You Die
OR
2) You can twitter along with Cheryl Klein and me as we chat about OPERATION YES, the writing and editorial process, and which one of us has a marked obsession with pudding.
You can find us in the top secret chat room located under the hashtag #YESchat.
For more about these choices, see Cheryl's post Would you rather . . .? in which she deviously tries to cloud the pudding discussion with pie and cake.
If you have no idea what Twitter is, please see InkyGirl's post "Writer's Guide to Twitter." Hop on the Twitter wagon at Twitter.com, practice a little, and be ready to join us on Sept. 30.
PROGRAMMING NOTE: For the #YESchat, I'll be tweeting from my @saralewisholmes account and Cheryl from @chavelaque. Amusing, informative, and delicious posts will then be re-tweeted at a later time from my @operationyes account. Please feel free to twitter with me on either account beginning today or on any other day ending in Y.
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Transcript of the Twitter Chat Between Me and My Editor, Cheryl Klein
 Transcript from September 30, 2009 |
September 30, 2009 | ||
catch this: @SaraLewisHolmes & senior editor Cheryl Klein twitter chat Wed, 9/30, at noon EST. Hashtag to follow: #YESchat | ||
I have recess duty @ noon but will check out the archives for sure! #YESchat | ||
@SaraLewisHolmes See you at #yeschat during my lunch period.My 7th grade class may pop in, too, if you're still going at 12:40. #yeschat | ||
Last reminder: Sara Lewis Holmes & I chat today at noon EST, right here on Twitter. Join us for lunch at the hashtag #YESchat! | ||
RT@chavelaque Editor/Writer Cheryl Klein & Sara Lewis Holmes chat today @ noon EST, on Twitter. Join them 4lunch at hashtag #YESchat! | ||
RT @chavelaque: Last reminder: Sara Lewis Holmes & I chat today, noon EST, right here on Twitter. Join us for lunch at the hashtag #YESchat! | ||
Cheryl Klein @chavelaque Sr. Editor @AALBooks starting live Twitter chat w/OPERATION YES author @saralewisholmes @ Noon ET! #YESChat | ||
RT @scholastic Cheryl Klein @chavelaque Sr. Editor @AALBooks live Twitter chat w/OPERATION YES author @saralewisholmes noon ET! #YESChat | ||
@chavelaque @saralewisholmes Sad to miss it, but I'm on the road, about to leave Boulder for Laramie. Break a leg, ladies. #YESchat | ||
RT @SaraLewisHolmes: RT @chavelaque: Last reminder: Sara Lewis Holmes & I chat today, noon EST, right here on Twitter. #YESchat! | ||
RT@scholastic Cheryl Klein @chavelaque Sr. Editor @AALBooks live Twitter chat w/OPERATION YES author @saralewisholmes @ Noon ET! #YESChat | ||
RT @jeanie_w RT @SaraLewisHolmes by @chavelaque: Last reminder: Sara Lewis Holmes & I chat today, noon EST, right here on Twitter. #YESchat! | ||
RT @jeanie_w @SaraLewisHolmes @chavelaque: Last reminder: Sara Lewis Holmes & I chat today, noon EST, right here on Twitter. #YESchat! | ||
Hello? Yeschatters? Who's here? #yeschat | ||
Thanks to anyone watching (reading? Tweeting?) for joining us! #YESchat | ||
I am: Sheryl A VanVleck #YESchat | ||
Hi Sara, it's Pam Bachorz dropping in! #yeschat | ||
RT@scholastic Cheryl Klein @chavelaque Sr. Editor @AALBooks live Twitter chat w/OPERATION YES author @saralewisholmes @ Noon ET! #YESChat | ||
Oh, yay! We have company! This is new for both Cheryl and I, so I'm glad to see friends! #yeschat | ||
I'm here. #YESchat | ||
RT @chavelaque Sara Lewis Holmes & I chat today at noon EST, right here on Twitter. Join us for lunch at the hashtag #YESchat! | ||
#YESchat Lurking. Great idea for a twitter chat Sara and Cheryl! :) e | ||
I am new to all this but wanted to thank Cheryl Klein for the excellent writing information she posts. #YESchat | ||
If you're using TweetChat, the refresh can work slowly, so be patient. #yeschat | ||
Hi! I'm Sharon and I think I'm here... #YESchat | ||
Warmed up my soup - having lunch & book talk online with @chavelaque & @saralewisholmes today! #yeschat | ||
#YESchat is on! | ||
Hi. Never done one of these but it's a cool idea.. #YESchat | ||
So, @saralewisholmes have you gotten any writing done today? < editor taps foot impatiently > ;-) How's your usual writing day go? #YESchat | ||
#YESchat LOVE the cover of your new book Sara! :) e | ||
Does blogging and emailing and twittering count as writing? 'Cause then I have! #yeschat | ||
For the record to all listening in: We plan to go till 1, taking ?s throughout, and answer them starting ~ 12:30, 12:45. #YESchat | ||
My usual writing day? Lately, I've started in on a plan I call Two Mornings. #yeschat | ||
It's tough to balance writing the next while promoting the one that just came out! #YESchat | ||
I get up early, and do writing tasks like blogging and answering emails and book promotion things. #yeschat | ||
So feel free to ask questions, but don't feel hurt if we don't answer immediately! #YESchat | ||
Then after lunch, I take a 10 minute nap, make myself a cup of tea, and re-start my day: Second Morning! #yeschat | ||
That's when I do my drafting and revising on my work in progress. #yeschat | ||
listening in on Cheryl Klein and her writer sara lewis holmes today! #yeschat | ||
Can you tell that I love mornings? :) #yeschat | ||
Question: what's your take on an author going far afield from their last book? Good? Career suicide? Or, it depends? #YESchat | ||
RT @SaraLewisHolmes My usual writing day? Lately, I've started in on a plan I call Two Mornings. #yeschat <--I love idea of Two Mornings! | ||
Nice! And it's working? #YESchat | ||
Sara, aren't you coming with Cheryl to the Austin SCBWI conference next January? I just signed up and look forward to meeting you! #YESchat | ||
So far! I think the hot cup of tea is the key to it working. Also, I play yoga music to kick in my creative side. #yeschat | ||
(Goodness, this conversational rhythm is weird. I'm having to sit on my impulse to talk a lot to fill the silence.) #YESchat | ||
Hi, all. #YESchat | ||
I am working on the eternal web site update while I am letting another edit stew! #YESchat | ||
Yoga music? Interesting! I'm afraid I'd get sleepy. #YESchat | ||
Eavesdropping on #yeschat... | ||
@saralewisholmes How was most of OPERATION YES drafted -- in the mornings, pre-kids getting up? Other times? Longhand or computer? #YESchat | ||
I'm following as I can, while working, as it's only 10 here! #YESchat | ||
(Sara and I discovered early on that we are both writing-process junkies, hence these questions.) #YESchat | ||
Trying to follow #yeschat secretly from work. | ||
#YESchat Sara, How did you feel your book changed after working with Cheryl? Subtle, major? | ||
I drafted OPERATION YES before I had the Two Mornings Plan in place. So it was mostly in the real morning. :) #yeschat | ||
It is extremely difficult to keep up with all the networking, web site building and final editing with bios, marketing plans, etc #YESchat | ||
My day depends upon deadlines. Current deadline: Get a line-edit to author early next week, so I started thinking about MS ... #YESchat | ||
I shall have to try two mornings, only my ten minute naps turn into 20 minutes or more #YESchat | ||
I wrote the first instance of Bo's voice longhand in my notebook. Also, Gari. Later, I switched to the computer for more drafting. #yeschat | ||
...while I was still in bed this morning, composing ed note while drying my hair. Got to work, checked e-mail, and wrote that note. #YESchat | ||
Can you talk about how you two connected? Via agent? Chance? Luck? #yeschat | ||
By the way, I'm pasting the questions you guys are tossing out to a file to be answered later in the chat! #yeschat | ||
@SaraLewisHomes How much distance (time) between completed first draft and beginning revisions for final submission draft? #YESchat | ||
Most days go e-mail, meetings, lunch, more meetings, with editing done in the interstices between and evenings/weekends. #YESchat | ||
While drying your hair??? Oh, you mean in your head, right? #yeschat | ||
I also am pasting the questions in a file, which shows why @saralewisholmes and I were such a good editorial match. :-) #YESchat | ||
Yes, in my head. Though I often think I should get a dictating machine and voice-recognition software -- #YESchat | ||
like authors, things we're writing often sound better to us editors in our heads. #YESchat | ||
Ha! So how else are we twins? Love of theater? #yeschat | ||
Theatre, improv, yoga, Lyle Lovett, Southern food, Connie Willis, great children's and YA lit, religion & political interests. #YESchat | ||
And yet we STILL have never met in person! The first time will either be December (yes?) or at the Austin SCBWI in January. #YESchat | ||
Yes to all of that! I remember being surprised, though, when you told me you were taking improv classes. #yeschat | ||
@chavelaque What a schedule! I can see why it's so important that you absolutely love the MSS you're working on. #YESchat | ||
#YESchat I used to date Lyle's cousin. Brought Lyle Ginger Snaps backstage. (He loves 'em.) What a voice! :) e | ||
It was really the thematic strength of OPERATION YES that made it stand out to me as an MS -- the idea about community in it -- #YESchat | ||
@SaraLewisHolmes You two have never met?! Well, Green Eggs and Ham! (I love the way the librarian, Miss Candy, cusses.) #yeschat | ||
Take out Lyle Lovett (really?) and Connie Willis (no offense) and we could all hang out. ;^) #YESchat | ||
which you reflected in the plot (the way everyone unites for Op Yes), the voice (the multiple points of view), & character psych. #YESchat | ||
Sorry what is MS? #yeschat | ||
MS is manuscript :-) #YESchat | ||
#YESchat Cheryl, what's your fave Connie Willis book? e | ||
The community aspect is what I loved about OY, too. Reminded me of the times Bill and I loved on base. #YESchat | ||
To your ?, Sara -- I did take improv earlier this year, & it's a lot like editing in that you have to listen VERY CLOSELY #YESchat | ||
Can I ask how you two communicate about the ms? Email, phone? #YESchat | ||
and go with what your partner is saying, stay in tune with the overall idea & story, no matter how many distractions there are. #YESchat | ||
@saralewisholmes Where did you get the idea to integrate improv with military life? Did you have a teacher like Ms. Loupe? #YESchat | ||
Swooping in from Idaho. I bought OP YES last night at my daughter's school book fair. #YESchat | ||
Just fyi...going to sign out of #yeschat & come back as @MessnerEnglish, which is still me but w/ a class of 7th graders, too! #yeschat | ||
Improv is SO much like military life. You're always having to go with the flow, make do with what you've got, be part of a team. #yeschat | ||
My high school drama teacher was a lot like Miss Loupe. Her name was Linda Lyle. She let me try anything---Shakespeare, #yeschat | ||
a one-woman Emily Dickinson show, portraying Queen Elizabeth, directing other students, stage managing... #yeschat | ||
I remember her taking me for a private session with a professional actor at a stage company in Knoxville, too. #yeschat | ||
The actor's name was Lucien Douglas, and yes, he was as yummy as that sounds. I could hardly breathe. #yeschat | ||
Also, I remember very distinctly that in her "space"--she didn't tape it like Ms. Loupe, but she definitely owned her space--- #yeschat | ||
Good point! RT @chavelaque I did take improv earlier this year, & it's a lot like editing in that you have to listen VERY CLOSELY #YESchat | ||
@SaraLewisHolmes fantastic! a writing teacher once told me that every author should take an acting and/or improv class. #YESchat | ||
@SarahLewisHolmes Hi! 1-woman E. Dickinson show--was that something you wrote or a scene from BELLE OF AMHERST? #YESchat | ||
everyone in the school was welcome. No one was allowed to be cliquish/put in a box like jock or nerd. We were ALL theater people. #yeschat | ||
Have to digress & brag - I am going to see Daniel Craig & Hugh Jackman in A STEADY RAIN tomorrow night! Girls' night out w friends. #YESchat | ||
@chavelaque Be sure to turn off your cell unless you want Hugh to notice you. (On second thought, maybe that's a good idea.) #YESchat | ||
JEALOUS!!! RT @chavelaque: I am going to see Daniel Craig & Hugh Jackman in A STEADY RAIN tomorrow night! #YESchat | ||
@chavelaque Dang. Daniel Craig AND Hugh Jackman. I'm more than green; I'm neon green with envy. #yeschat | ||
I took voice acting this spring to help with reading aloud and it was fascinating. I'm less nervous about phone interviews now. #YESchat | ||
@SaraLewisHolmes That is v. cool! And it happens in OP YES, too, as Gari starts to work with Melissa & Allison . . . #YESchat | ||
@chavelaque How influenced were you by the timeliness of Sara's military family story to take it on? Thanks! #YESchat | ||
@SaraLewisHolmes Are you more of a Gari (a planner) or a Bo (improv)? Are your answers different for writing vs. life? #YESchat | ||
(Gari and Bo are the two protagonists of the book, whose POVs alternate through Part 1 and integrate later.) #YESchat | ||
@chavelaque Exactly. I love how theater builds a community. Another reason I tied it to the military's sense of the same. #yeschat | ||
It was the improv in drama class that dragged me into theater in high school. I couldn't resist! Think it'd be harder now. #YESchat | ||
@SaraLewisHolmes @chavelaque @dulemba Pics of Craig and Jackman w review in today's Wash Post *drool* #YESchat | ||
So are there improve techniques you use when you're stuck with your writing? #YESchat | ||
@SaraLewisHolmes Sorry I misspelled your name. I have a relative named Sarah Lewis, with the H. Congratulations on your book! :) #YESchat | ||
@chavelaque Gari is me earlier in my life. I wanted to know how everything would work out. Now I'm more BO-ish. #yeschat | ||
I'm laughing though, 'cause Gari the Planner had this whole list of questions for this chat, and Bo said: just relax1 #yeschat | ||
@SaraLewisHolmes I'm v. much the same - a Gari trying to learn to relax & be Bo. Tho I imagine my editing will always be Gari-iish #YESchat | ||
oh, Hi Laurie! Yes, up in my tree house now. #YESchat | ||
I love the cover of Operation Yes - it really stands out. I can't imagine any kid not picking it up to see what it's about. #YESchat | ||
I love structures & outlines (bookmaps) too much to let go! (And they're too useful for seeing & pulling together wide-ranging MS.) #YESchat | ||
@chavelaque For which, I'm utterly grateful. People, having Cheryl edit your work is like having another brain! #yeschat | ||
I can't wait to read OPERATION YES! Theater helped me survive HS in a tiny town. #YESchat | ||
RT @SaraLewisHolmes @chavelaque For which, I'm utterly grateful. People, having Cheryl edit your work is like having another brain! #yeschat | ||
@chavelaque And that's gives ME the freedom to really let go and leap out there in my revision. Trust, just like good stage work. #yeschat | ||
@SaraLewisHolmes We should probably start questions now, yes? @fbradley: How did you two communicate about the ms? Email, phone? #YESchat | ||
I agree about the cover appeal. I think it will work for both girl and boy readers. Is that hard to acheive, Cheryl? #YESchat | ||
My edit process has become really talk-based: I get a MS, read it, make notes, send them to author w/ basic questions #YESchat | ||
about their intentions for it, anything that seemed really out of blue to me, anything they want me to take a good look at. #YESchat | ||
Then we talk about all of that; then I write an edit letter based on that talk, once I'm sure where we're going & what to work on. #YESchat | ||
So yes, all e-mail and phone. (Though I owe Sara some banana pudding when we meet in person.) #YESchat | ||
By "out of blue to me" you mean something that does not fit in the book? #YESchat | ||
She's tricky, people: all those "intentions" and "good look at" questions force authors to re-think and re-vision. #yeschat | ||
And her editorial "letters" are more like "novels." :) #yeschat | ||
COOL! RT @SaraLewisHolmes: all thoseintentions and good look at questions force authors to re-think and re-vision. #yeschat | ||
For @karenrivers, re: how we connected: http://bit.ly/tGjRg #YESchat | ||
Thanks for sharing your process. Very interesting--and sounds exciting to see a project grow (though hard work for both of you :-). #YESchat | ||
I'll take this question: So are there improv techniques you use when you're stuck with your writing? @RosanneParry , right? #yeschat | ||
I plead guilty to long edit letters -- combination of enthusiasm, trying to be useful, and, uh, long-windedness. #YESchat | ||
@SaraLewisHolmes yes! #YESchat | ||
"Yes, and...." really works. You say yes to what's there already in the manuscript. And then you USE it. #yeschat | ||
@Idaho_Laurie I LOVE long letters. It means an editor's really and truly listened to your work. Scary? Just a little. #yeschat | ||
And this is bad? I'd love one of your letters! :) RT @chavelaque: I plead guilty to long edit letters. #YESchat | ||
I try to warn authors before I acquire MS: I am INTENSE. I write a lot and line-edit heavily. If you like that, we're all good. #YESchat | ||
RT @SaraLewisHolmes: I LOVE long letters. It means an editor's really and truly listened to your work. Scary? Just a little. #yeschat | ||
RT @chavelaque @dulemba My fave Connie Willis is TO SAY NOTHING OF THE DOG. Love her short stories 2 - lk Kelly Link/Margo Lanagan. #YESchat | ||
@SaraLewisHolmes It makes my brain hurt to think what Connie Willis's editor must have gone through, keeping all that straight! #YESchat | ||
@chavelaque I think most writers would prefer an intense editor who improves the MS to one who lets it go sub-par. #YESchat | ||
Is line-edit, excuse me here, but is that literally line by line with what included? #YESchat | ||
@SaraLewisHolmes Lightning round! Fried chicken or BBQ? Collard greens or yams? Biscuits or cornbread? Banana pudding or pecan pie? #YESchat | ||
AGREED! RT @jeanie_w: RT @SaraLewisHolmes: I LOVE long letters. It means an editor's really and truly listened to your work. #yeschat | ||
@chavelaque Re: I am INTENSE. I write a lot and line-edit heavily. If you like that, we're all good. <--- Knew you rocked! <3 it! #YESchat | ||
Having trouble getting our tweets to show up - How long was the editorial letter for Operation Yes? #yeschat | ||
@sadairvanvleck Yes, line-by-line review saying "I don't understand this," "right word?" "cut this, redundant," "Love this," etc. #YESchat | ||
BBQ! Yams. Cornbread. Pudding. I knew you'd work in food. Would you ever acquire a MS that didn't mention food? #yeschat | ||
RT @SaraLewisHolmes I LOVE long letters. It means an editor's really and truly listened to your work. Scary? Just a little. #yeschat | ||
Yes! RT @susan_adrian: @chavelaque I think most writers prefer an intense editor who improves the MS to one who lets it go sub-par. #YESchat | ||
#YESchat Fried chicken AND BBQ, Collard Greens AND yams, Biscuits AND cornbread, and Banana pudd'n all the way! (Then a 5 m. jog.) :) e | ||
@MessnerEnglish I just looked, and the 1st letter was, uh, 15 single-spaced pages. 8 of those were plot outline + discussion, tho. #YESchat | ||
I cannot imagine any author wanting their book to go out without that type of perfection involved. #YESchat | ||
@saralewisholmes A picture book, yes; a novel, no. You can't trust a character who doesn't think about eating at least once. #YESchat | ||
By the way, I'm good with chatting longer than the hour. Cheryl, can you stay? #yeschat | ||
18 pages-wow! There are so many ideas in your book- Alexis wonders how you come up with and organize them while you write. #yeschat | ||
Another 10-15 minutes, yes! Though talk of food is making me hungry for lunch. :-) #YESchat | ||
RT @olugbemisola @SaraLewisHolmes fantastic! a writing teacher once told me that every author should take an acting/improv class. #YESchat | ||
@chavelaque Was there back-and-forth while Sara worked on that first ltr. or did she do a complete draft before you reconvened?#YESchat | ||
@MessnerEnglish It all goes in my plain, spiral notebook. I collect ideas like pieces to a puzzle. #yeschat | ||
But maybe we should mention the contest to win a signed copy of OPERATION YES? I'm going to post it to my Operation Yes blog today. #yeschat | ||
@Idaho_Laurie She did a complete draft, I think (which I prefer -- it's hard to judge what a MS needs w/o seeing it whole). #YESchat | ||
One more question, Sara & Cheryl - What other MG and YA novels are you reading & loving right now? #yeschat | ||
@Idaho_Laurie Some writers check in while revising for help w/ brainstorming or logic, or to clarify points from ed. letter #YESchat | ||
@Idaho_Laurie which I like - I send MS. back to authors & then I miss them (both author & MS). :) But all depends on author needs. #YESchat | ||
@dawnmetcalf I guess when I've covered all those points in the revision letter! but also, it *feels* right. Like a satisfying click #yeschat | ||
#YESchat Deadlines loom, but this has been VERY cool. Thank you Cheryl and Sara! :) e | ||
Thanks to both of you. #YESchat | ||
@ConnieAnnKirk asked about importance of timeliness to acquisition of OPYES - I researched military families in process & learned.. #YESchat | ||
Link to my post about how to win a signed copy of OPERATION YES: http://tinyurl.com/yan6qge You have to jody call to win! #yeschat | ||
@ConnieAnnKirk there are 1 million+ people in military, and 300,000 kids (don't quote me on #s) - so even tho v. timely w/ wars,... #YESchat | ||
@ConnieAnnKirk I knew the book would remain relevant to those kids' lives long after we withdraw from Iraq & Afghanistan. #YESchat | ||
And yes, @RosanneParry - very hard to get a cover with boy and girl appeal! I love the @operationyes cover too. #YESchat | ||
@MessnerEnglish I'm about to start reading Terry Pratchett's NATION. My book club is doing the YA novel, MARCELO IN THE REAL WORLD #yeschat | ||
RT @saralewisholmes Link to my post about how to win a signed copy of OPERATION YES: http://tinyurl.com/yan6qge Jody call to win! #YESchat | ||
@chavelaque. Indeed, it will. Thanks for finding my question! Thanks to you and @SaraLewisHolmes for the #YESchat. | ||
@MessnerEnglish I just finished THE MAGICIAN'S ELEPHANT by Kate DiCamillo; rereading Hilary McKay's PERMANENT ROSE. LOVE McKay. #YESchat | ||
I've started interviewing authors of the few military family books that are out there. @RosanneParry was first. Hi, Rosanne! #yeschat | ||
Yes, more! My husband is deployed, and my daughter (10 yrs old) struggles--I'm looking forward to getting my copy of Op. Yes. #YESchat | ||
Thanks so much for this, Cheryl and Sara. I hope this book finds its way into lots of little hands. #YESchat | ||
this #yeschat has been great, like a digital party line. thanks @chavelaque and @saralewisholmes for letting us listen in! | ||
Will check out Piper Reed--thanks! Will look for more info on your blog, Sarah, if you do those author interviews. #YESchat | ||
Thanks to all of you for being here! I had no idea if anyone would come or if we'd be playing to an empty house. :) #yeschat | ||
I need to go too, I think -- but note this convo will be archived on Sara's http://bit.ly/4PJgs or my blog http://bit.ly/Apzr3 #YESchat | ||
@chavelaque @SaraLewisHolmes Thank you so much for participating in #yeschat It was very interesting! | ||
Thanks to you all for coming -- and to you, Sara, as always! #YESchat | ||
And don't forget to enter the jody call contest and win a signed copy of OPERATION YES. http://tinyurl.com/yan6qge #yeschat | ||
@SaraLewisHolmes No problem. Twitter's great. Easy. Love following writerly chats! ;) Best of luck w/ your book! #YESchat | ||
Thanks, Cheryl. This was fabulous fun! #yeschat | ||
@chavelaque @saralewisholmes Thanks for sharing! #yeschat | ||
Have a great afternoon, all! #YESchat | ||
Thanks Sara, Cheryl, and chatters. #YESchat | ||
I'll post an archive link when I have one. Bye, all! Thank you! #yeschat | ||
And apologies to anyone who didn't follow #YESchat for cluttering your tweetbox. Hope you found some of it interesting! | ||
Nice lunch with other writers and editor Cheryl Klein on #YESchat. Now, back to the web page. I must finish. I must finish. I must finish. | ||
RT @SaraLewisHolmes Don't forget to enter jody call contest & win a signed copy of OPERATION YES. http://tinyurl.com/yan6qge #yeschat | ||
@saralewisholmes @chavelaque sorry I had to miss #YESchat in real time but it looks like it was fab! Looking forward to the transcript.... | ||
Jody call contest also posted at Read*Write*Believe http://tinyurl.com/ydtq6lx if your browser balks at www.operationyesbook.com #yeschat | ||
Jody call contest also posted at Read*Write*Believe http://tinyurl.com/ydtq6lx if your browser balks at www.operationyesbook.com #yeschat | ||
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