Efnisyfirlit

• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Foreword
• Introduction
  • About This Book
  • Conventions Used in This Book
  • What You’re Not to Read
  • Foolish Assumptions
  • How This Book Is Organized
    • Part I: Getting Ready to Write Young Adult Fiction
    • Part II: Writing Riveting Young Adult Fiction
    • Part III: Editing, Revising, and Formatting Your Manuscript
    • Part IV: Getting Published
    • Part V: The Part of Tens
  • Icons Used in This Book
  • Where to Go from Here
• Part I: Getting Ready to Write Young Adult Fiction
  • Chapter 1: The Lowdown on YA Fiction
    • Introducing YA and Its Readers
      • Knowing what makes a YA a YA
      • Understanding why YA fi ction is for kids
      • Looking at why it’s not just for kids
    • Maneuvering through the Challenges
      • Reaching reluctant readers
      • Pacifying gatekeepers
    • Enjoying the Perks of Writing for Young Adults
      • Getting new waves of readers: Long live the renewable audience!
      • Gaining a following: The young and the quenchless
      • Breaking the rules
  • Chapter 2: Targeting Teen Readers
    • Identifying Your Teen or Tween Audience
      • Choosing your age range
      • Targeting gender
      • Exercise: Name your category
    • Knowing Your Genre
      • Exploring genres of YA fi ction
      • Writing cross-genre novels
    • Thinking through the Theme
      • Looking at universal teen themes
      • Making timeless themes relevant today
      • Exercise: Choose your theme
    • Making or Chasing Trends
  • Chapter 3: Managing Your Muse
    • Setting Yourself Up to Write
      • Carving out your writing space
      • Protecting your writing time
    • Setting Your Muse Loose
      • Capturing ideas
      • Getting the words to fl ow
      • Bulldozing your way through writer’s block
    • Outlining the Right Way (for You)
      • Outlining the whole story
      • Planning portions
      • Tossing out the outline
    • Doing Research, YA-Style
      • Taking notes and keeping records
      • Following general research guidelines
      • Finding reliable online resources
      • Doing field research to make the teen realm yours
      • Putting the brakes on research
      • Revealing what you know
    • Finding Your People: The YA Community
      • Joining a professional organization: What SCBWI should mean to you
      • Attending writers’ conferences
      • Keeping up with the biz: YA-specifi c journals
      • Checking out the online community
      • Joining a critique group
• Part II: Writing Riveting Young Adult Fiction
  • Chapter 4: Writing the Almighty Hook
    • Understanding the Importance of a Hook
      • Calling your shot for others
      • Calling your shot for yourself
    • Writing a Great Hook in Four Easy Steps
      • Step 1: Introduce your character
      • Step 2: State your theme
      • Step 3: Assert your core plot confl ict or goal
      • Step 4: Add context
      • Exercise: Write your hook
    • Using Your Hook to Shape Your Story
  • Chapter 5: Creating Teen-Friendly Characters
    • Casting Characters Teens Care About
      • Calling all heroes
      • Selecting a jury of peers
      • Offing the old people
    • Bringing Your Characters to Life
      • Revealing character through action
      • Revealing character through dialogue
      • Getting physical
      • The beauty of flaws: Creating a not-so-perfect character
      • Backstory: Knowing the secret past
      • Exercise: Create a full character profi le
    • Putting Your Characters to Work
      • Making the introductions
      • Using character arc to drive your plot
      • Granting independence to teen characters
    • Writing Believable Baddies
      • Giving the villains goals and dreams
      • Seeing the good in the bad
      • Making an example of an antagonist
      • Exercise: Write a character profi le for your antagonist
  • Chapter 6: Building the Perfect Plot
    • Choosing the Approach to Your Plot
      • Acting on events: Plot-driven stories
      • Focusing on feelings: Character-driven stories
    • Seven Steps to the Perfect Plot
      • Step 1: Engage your ESP
      • Step 2: Compute the problem
      • Step 3: Flip the switch
      • Step 4: Dog pile on the protagonist
      • Step 5: Epiphany!
      • Step 6: Final push
      • Step 7: Triumph
      • Exercise: Plot your trigger points
    • Tackling Pacing and Tension
      • Picking up the pace
      • Slowing the pace
      • Creating tension
    • Managing Your Subplots
    • Pulling Off Prologues, Flashbacks, and Epilogues
      • Prologues
      • Flashbacks
      • Epilogues
  • Chapter 7: Creating Teen-Driven Action
    • Grabbing Teens’ Attention
      • Opening with action
      • Tell ’em how it is: Giving key info
      • Making promises
    • Pushing Readers’ Buttons with Scenes and Chapters
      • Knowing a scene from a chapter
      • Mastering transitions
    • Leaving Teens Satisfi ed
      • Empowering your teen lead
      • Keeping it real
      • Keeping your promise
      • Delivering a twist
  • Chapter 8: Setting Is More than Somewhere to Be
    • How the Where and When Affect the Who, What, and Why
      • Place
      • Time
      • Social context
    • Setting Up Your Characters
      • Manipulating their minds
      • Putting words in their mouths
      • Kicking characters in the pants
    • Tying Your Plot to Your Place
    • Choosing the Best Setting for Your Teen Novel
    • Making the Setting Come Alive
      • Engaging the fi ve senses
      • Sample scene: Two girls on a bus
      • Researching your setting
    • Weaving the Setting into Your Narrative
      • Sprinkling versus splashing
      • Stacking the sensory details
      • Keeping it young
      • Giving the setting a job
      • Freshening up common settings
  • Chapter 9: Crafting a Narrative Voice Teens Will Listen To . . . and Love
    • I’m Not Talking Dialogue Here: The True Meaning of Narrative Voice
      • Getting a feel for narrative voice
      • Seeing what goes into narrative voice
    • Pinning Down Your Narrator and Point of View
      • First-person POV
      • Second-person POV
      • Third-person limited POV
      • Third-person omniscient POV
      • The unreliable narrator
      • Exercise: Developing your narrative POV
    • Making Sense of Teen Sensibility
      • Self-awareness and the teen psyche
      • Embrace your inner drama queen
    • Word Choice: It Pays to Be Picky
      • Say what? Using appropriate words for your audience
      • Getting fresh with your phraseology
      • Exercise: Creating a word bank
      • Showing a little style
    • Syncing Your Delivery to Your Audience
      • Sizing up sentence structure and paragraphing
      • Putting punctuation in its place
    • Show It, Don’t Tell It
  • Chapter 10: Talking Like a Teen
    • Telling Your Story through Dialogue
      • Character and mood: Letting your teens talk about themselves
      • Delivering information: Loose lips reveal plot and backstory
      • Choosing the setting: Their “where” determines their words
    • Even Old People Can Sound Young
      • Rediscovering your immaturity
      • Relaxing the grammar
      • Ditching the fake teen accent
      • Cussing with caution
    • What the Best Dialogue Doesn’t Say
      • Censoring the babble
      • Dodging the question
      • Avoiding info dumps
    • Getting the Balance Right: Dialogue and Narrative
      • Taking breathers with beats
      • Making the action count
      • He said, she said: Doling out dialogue tags
      • Welcoming teens with white space
      • Weighing your balance of dialogue and narrative
    • Doing a Little Mind Reading: Direct Thoughts
• Part III: Editing, Revising, and Formatting Your Manuscript
  • Chapter 11: Editing and Revising with Confidence
    • Self-Editing, Where Every Revision Begins
      • The read-through: Shifting your mindset from writing to editing
      • Self-editing checklist
    • Calling in the Posse: The Give and Take of Critiquing
      • Participating in a critique group
      • Hiring a freelance editor
      • Getting input from teens and tweens
    • Revising with Confi dence
      • Starting big and fi nishing small
      • Taking chances with your changes
      • Knowing the fi nal draft when you see it
  • Chapter 12: The Finishing Touches: Formatting and Finalizing
    • Paying Attention to Nitty-Gritty Details
      • Patrolling punctuation
      • Avoiding basic blunders with easily confused words
      • Running spell-check
    • Making Passes: Professionals Proofread (Twice)
    • Formatting the Standard YA Manuscript
      • Page setup and such: Tackling the technical stuff
      • Putting the right stuff on the fi rst page
    • Protecting What’s Yours and Getting Permission
      • Copyrighting your manuscript
      • Understanding plagiarism, permission, and perfectly fair use
      • Asking for the okay
      • Crediting your sources
• Part IV: Getting Published
  • Chapter 13: Strategizing and Packaging Your Submissions
    • Creating Your Submission Strategy
      • Compiling your submission list
      • Identifying the right editor for you
      • Deciding to work with an agent
    • Query Letters, Your Number-One Selling Tool
      • Why queries feel like the be all, end all . . . and are
      • Writing a successful query letter
    • Writing an Effective Synopsis
      • Drafting the synopsis
      • Tweaking the tone and tense
      • Formatting a synopsis
    • Packaging Your Submission
      • What to include
      • What not to include
      • The skinny on sample chapters
    • Keeping Your Fingers Crossed
      • Enduring the wait for a response
      • Receiving the long-awaited news
    • Turning “No” into “Yes!”
      • Using rejection to strengthen your story (and maybe resubmit it!)
      • Reading between the rejection-letter lines
      • Keeping your ego (and feelings) out of it
  • Chapter 14: Self-Publishing: Is It for You?
    • What’s So Different about Self-Publishing?
      • Eyeing the benefi ts
      • Realizing the drawbacks
    • Understanding Your Publishing Options
      • Traditional publishing
      • Print-on-demand (POD)
      • Digital publishing
    • Knowing the Players
      • Author services companies
      • Publisher services companies
      • Distributors
      • Wholesalers
      • Booksellers
    • Weighing Self-Publishing for Your YA Fiction
      • Common scenarios for self-publishers
      • Balancing your goals, your guts, and your wallet
  • Chapter 15: Mastering Marketing
    • Laying the Foundation
    • Working with a Marketing Team
      • Understanding the marketing department’s role
      • Calling in reinforcements: Freelance publicists
    • Marketing Yourself: I Write; Therefore, I Promote
      • Creating and maintaining a platform
      • Gathering your marketing materials
      • Garnering book reviews
• Part V: The Part of Tens
  • Chapter 16: Ten Common Pitfalls in Writing YA Fiction
    • Dating a Book
    • Slinging Slang
    • S-E-X
    • Writing Cliché Characters and Situations
    • Preaching
    • Dumbing It Down
    • Writing for 18+
    • Putting Adults at the Helm
    • The Waving Author
    • Writing to Trends
  • Chapter 17: Ten Facts about Book Contracts
    • Does the Publisher Own the Copyright to My Book?
    • What Does “Buy All Rights” Mean?
    • What are Subsidiary Rights?
    • What’s the Deal with Electronic Rights?
    • What Does “Advance Against Royalties” Mean?
    • What’s the Difference between Royalties on “Net” and “Gross”?
    • Why Do My Royalties Go to My Agent?
    • What’s a Boilerplate?
    • Am I Protected from Libel Suits?
    • What’s an Option, and Why Would I Grant It?
  • Chapter 18: Ten Ways to Make the Most of a Conference
    • Set Reasonable Goals and Make a Plan to Achieve Them
    • Research the Faculty
    • Pay for One-on-One Critiques
    • Perfect Your Pitch
    • Prepare Your Manuscript
    • Create a Conference Notebook
    • Bring Bookmarks or Business Cards
    • Make Notes on the Business Cards You Receive
    • Save Conference Expense Receipts for Tax Records
    • Set Aside a Post-Conference Recovery Phase
• Index
• EULA

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