Blog Chain

(NOTE: To participate in the blog chain, you must be twenty years old or younger. This chain is meant to bring teen writers together, so it doesn’t quite work if you’re not in that age range. Sorry!)

So how does the blog chain work? We’ll assign a topic for the next month’s chain in a blog post that usually goes live toward the end of the month (often about the 25th). To sign up for the chain, all you have to do is comment on the announcement post with a link to your blog and any days that don’t work for you, and I’ll assign you a date to post your response on. (Although, if it ends up that you’re away on the only day we have left, you can always write your post in advance and schedule it to publish automatically.) The goal of the chain is to help you meet new teen bloggers/writers from all across the interwebs, so be sure to visit others’ posts so that they can do the same for you.

When does the blog chain start? All of our blog chains begin on the 5th of the month and end on different dates, depending on how many people sign up (but they usually run to about the 22nd). The last day to enter the chain is on the 3rd, the same day that month’s blog chain schedule will be posted at the bottom this page. We’d love it if you could include the schedule at the end of your response to the prompt so that all of us can find each other and cross promote.

For those of you who are interested, here’s a roundup of the topics:

May 2015: “What is your greatest weakness as a writer? What’s your greatest strength?”

April 2015: “Write a letter to a fictional couple.”

March 2015: “What are your thoughts on reading or writing books in non-novel formats? Are there any you’ve particularly enjoyed?”

February 2015: “How does music relate to your writing?”

January 2015: “What is something you feel is generally written well in fiction? What is something you feel is generally written poorly?”

December 2014: “What works of fiction had taught you by example and what have they taught you?”

November 2014: “Use pictures and individual words to show what, to you, is the essence of being a teenager.”

September 2014: “What are your favorite book beginnings and/or endings?”

August 2014: “What characters are you most like?”

July 2014: “What’s one thing you wish you knew when you started writing?”

June 2014: “What are your thoughts on book-to-movie adaptions? Would you one day want your book made into a movie, or probably not?”

May 2014: “What kinds of published books would you like to see more of?”

January 2014: “If you could co-write a book with one author–living or not–who would it be and what would the book be about?”

December 2013: “Which fictional world would you most like to be a part of, and what role do you think you would fulfill within it?”

July 2013: “Take any character from one of your books and put them in a therapy session. Write a short scene about what happens.”

June 2013: “How have both the people in your life and your own personal experiences impacted your writing? Do you ever base characters off of people you know?”

May 2013: “What are some of the coolest/weirdest/funniest/most disturbing things you’ve researched for a story?”

April 2013: “What is your ultimate goal as a writer?”

March 2013: “Write a letter to an antagonist.”

February 2013: “Choose one self-published book to read and talk about your experience with it.”

January 2013:  “Is there one particular book that changed your life? If so, why did you originally choose to read it? What impact has it had on you?”

October 2012: “What are you writing for NaNoWriMo? Briefly explain how this book idea come about. Then write a mock first page for the novel.”

September 2012: “How much does setting affect your novels and stories? What are some of your favorite ways to portray setting?”

August 2012: ““Write a retelling of your favorite fairytale, myth, or legend.”

July 2012: “How has writing affected your perception of the world?”

June 2012: “Let’s face it; we all judge books by their covers. What kind of covers grab you? Why? Be sure to use examples of your favorite book covers.”

May 2012: “Why do you write?”

April 2012: “What are your writers’ habits and eccentricities?”

March 2012: “Choose your favorite of any of your own characters and conduct a ten-question interview with him or her.”

February 2012: “What are your thoughts on romance for your typical genre? Do you tend to have a little, a lot, or none at all?”

January 2012: “What are examples of books you’ve thrown across the room? Why did you throw them?”

December 2011: “How do you develop and relate to your characters?”

November 2011: “What are the wackiest search terms anyone has ever used to find your blog?”

October 2011: “What is the first thing you ever wrote of your own free will?”

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