PLEASE READ THE RULES IN FULL BEFORE SUBMITTING. FAILURE TO COMPLY MAY RESULT IN AUTOMATIC SINKING OF YOUR SHIP AND ALL OF ITS CREW MEMBERS.
The Hook, Line, and Sinker (HLS) Challenge is open to all (ages 18+). Eligible submissions must comes from your children’s or teen FICTION work (board books and early readers excluded) and should not already be published or under contract. Got it? NEW WORKS ONLY.
Today’s the day–my last vlog! Click below to learn more about Theme and Content.
In this video, Cynthea Liu discusses Theme and Content as it relates to multiple formats withing the children and teens genre.
Cynthea discusses:
1. What is theme and what to consider when it comes to your target format.
2. How do determine if content is appropriate for your format.
The Table of Contents for the video series:
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Today’s vlog post: How to Fit Your Writing Style to Different Formats!
In this video, Cynthea Liu goes over the main ideas when it comes to fitting an author’s writing style with different formats of children’s books.
Cynthea’s main points:
1. Examine comparables.
2. Use of dialogue and descriptive
3. Showing and Telling – when are things shown versus just told
4. Transitions from scene to scene.
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Today’s topic on Writing for Children and Teens is about Structure for Different Formats!
In this video, Cynthea Liu discusses the different structures for different formats and age groups.
In the video Cynthea covers these topics:
1. Structure matters, how a book is organized
2. PBs: length, page count and page turns, storyboarding and story arc.
3. Board Book: length, page count, and page turns, story-boarding and story arc.
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For today’s topic on Writing for Children and Teens, I’m going to discuss the Complexity in Different Formats.
In this video by Cynthea Liu, she discusses how to approach complexity when dabbling in multiple formats.
Cynthea’s main points:
1. Word Count matters and how to figure out guidelines.
2. Complexity of plotting and how that varies from board book to YA.
The Table of Contents for the video series:
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Today’s vlog post will help YOU figure out what age your main character should be.
In this installment, Cynthea Liu advises writers on how to determine the age of their main character. Cynthea discusses the main points of how to decide which age your main character should be based on which format you’re writing in.
The Table of Contents for the video series:
1. Writing for Multiple Formats: Introduction
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Today’s vlog post is about HOW to write for multiple formats click here to view it
Cynthea Liu on how to write for multiple formats when it comes to children’s publishing. She discusses what differences mark the variations of the formats.
The Table of Contents for the video series:
1. Writing for Multiple Formats: Introduction
2. What You Should Remember When Hearing Advice about this Topic: Disclaimers
3. Writing for Multiple Formats: The Benefits
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In Cynthea’s second video in an 8 part series, she discusses the benefits of writing for multiple formats in children’s literature. There are many benefits to writing in multiple formats, and Cynthea discusses them all.
If you enjoyed Writing for Multiple Formats, click to find out the benefits of multiple formats.
Cynthea Liu covers two main points in this video about the benefits of writing for multiple formats:
1. The challenge
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In this video, Cynthea Liu gives disclaimers for her next videos in this series.
She states,
1. Apply your own thoughts to advice you get from anyone. I only speak from my perspective and not others. Do not cling on to hard-and-fast rules that will send you down rabbit-holes.
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In a series of videos for WriteOnCon, Cynthea Liu begins an 8 part campaign on writing for children and teens. For my first blog post I am going to be discussing how and why you should write in multiple formats.
In the first video of the series, Cynthea Liu introduces herself, and begins to expand on the idea of writing for multiple formats in children and teen publishing.
Thank you to all of the authors who participated in RLGL this year!. Kissy loved digging through all of your submissions, and he found stories with intriguing characters, snappy dialogue, and imagery that were almost as good as bacon!
After weeks of searching, Kissy has found a manuscript in the Longer Works category that he really wants to sink his teeth into.
Round 8 for this year’s Red Light, Green Light contest is OPEN for submissions! Remember, this is only for longer works; we are no longer accepting entries for picture books. New entrants to the longer works category may enter at any time so long as the round is open. Woof!
To expedite our review process, and given the volume of entries we are receiving, we are reinstating feedback codes to deliver your results.
Round 7 for this year’s Red Light, Green Light contest is OPEN for submissions! Remember, this is only for longer works; we are no longer accepting entries for picture books. New entrants to the longer works category may enter at any time so long as the round is open. Woof!
To expedite our review process, and given the volume of entries we are receiving, we are reinstating feedback codes to deliver your results.
Round 6 for this year’s Red Light, Green Light contest is OPEN for submissions! Remember, this is only for longer works; we are no longer accepting entries for picture books. New entrants to the longer works category may enter at any time so long as the round is open. Woof!!
To expedite our review process, and given the volume of entries we are receiving, we are reinstating feedback codes to deliver your results.
Thank you to all of the Picture Book/Early Reader authors who participated in RLGL. Kissy loved digging through all of your submissions.
Hello, everyone! We swear we’re not trying to torture all of you lovely folks waiting for your RLGL Round 4 feedback, but between Cynthea’s recent 2016 Oklahoma Book Award win for Bike On, Bear!, her radio appearance this last Monday,an upcoming school visit, and training some new interns on how to give proper belly rubs, Kissy has been extremely busy. Now that things have calmed down a little, Kissy will be digging through your submissions over the next few days.
****Pardon for the pooch’s clerical error! We are so busy over here we didn’t update the post and the round on Submittable! Due to unforeseen circumstances, Cynthea has been called away to deal with some things that required her immediate attention so …. Kissy decided to give everyone a free pass to the next round, unless the submitter was on their last page in which case he and Cynthea weighed in to determine if there was a winner. Sooo, don’t relax yet.
The second Round for this year’s Red Light, Green Light contest is open for submissions!
*Update posted 2/24 at 5:30PM CST: All Round 1 results have been given. If you didn’t hear anything on your ROUND 1 submission, let us know. Round 2 closes tonight so get your next page in if you passed.
Some stats to give you some idea of where you stand:
Chances of publication among the general populous in real life: <1%, roughly.
BEFORE YOU DO ANYTHING, look at our Rules and Regulations.
Once you’ve got that all figured out, click that submit button at the bottom of this post.
Round 1 will be closing submissions on Saturday (2/20/16) @ 11:59 CST so get those manuscripts in!
New entrants can enter anytime though, even if you miss Round 1.
Anything can happen in this game, so get in when a round is open.
It’s your favorite time of the year again: RED LIGHT, GREEN LIGHT!
We’re back for another exciting, nail biting, keyboard crunching round, and we’ve made improvements to make RLGL much easier for Kissy to shred your manuscripts!
PLEASE READ THIS ENTIRE POST IN FULL.
And remember, anyone can enter the contest, no matter what round we are on (FICTION WORKS ONLY, PLEASE targeted for the major trade market. No short stories.