Here is your second day's schedule:

Ellen Dalow at Chasing Ray: "With regard to collections, I think that many YA authors don’t write much short fiction. Those that do, have perhaps only recently been hitting the public consciousness and might not yet have enough stories for a collection. I assume it’s also a marketing issue. If librarians asked publishers for anthologies and collections, perhaps publishers would listen."

Tony DiTerlizzi at Miss Erin: "My favorite thing for both roles is that I get to make a living doing essentially what I did as a kid. Coming up with imaginative, far out tales and drawing pictures for them. Seriously, I have been making up stories and creating little books since I was in grade school. I love a good story: whether someone tells it to me, or read it in a book, watch it on a movie or even play it in a cool video game"

Melissa Walker at Hip Writer Mama: "When I’m on a deadline for a book, I eat breakfast, then write. I don’t allow myself to have lunch until I have 1,000 words on the page. They don’t have to be good words, but they have to be there. I do that five days a week; afternoons are spent working on magazine stories. At that rate, you can get your 60,000 words in just 12 weeks."

Luisa Plaja at Bildungsroman: "But I could see that the line between 'popular' and 'not' was arbitrary. It was about a lot more than how you looked, dressed and behaved, and the same qualities that landed one person in the in-crowd could lead another to be an outcast. Having said that, I will freely admit that I was a misfit at school, although I rebelled in a quiet, obedient way, so as not to disturb anyone."

DM Cornish at Finding Wonderland: "Deeper still, it all began with Star Wars at age 5, with The Lord of the Rings at age 12, Narnia, H.P. Lovecraft, Fighting Fantasy books, the illustrations of Ian Miller and Angus McBride and Rodney Matthews, the Iliad, Frankenstein, Dune, Steinbeck, building with Lego[TM] and inventing worlds and stories to go with the models, the dinosaur and ghost books I read as a child, that really really cool Galactic Aliens book in my primary school's library (looking out for it still)...and all those things that boiled and bubbled until Mervyn Peake's Titus Alone finally burst the lid."

LJ Smith at The YA YA YAs: "Finally, there is simply something attractive about self-aware evil, if it is packaged rightly. Any girl or woman who can listen to Laurence Olivier do the opening speech of Shakespeare’s Richard III, especially such lines as

“I am determined to prove a Villaine,

And hate the idle pleasures of these dayes.

Plots have I laide, Inductions dangerous,

By drunken Prophesies, Libels, and Dreames…” and has not felt the urge to cry “I’m here! Take ME!”—well, maybe she’s more of a Sweet Valley gal."

Kathleen Duey at Bookshelves of Doom: "I do keep notes on stray papers and in files on the machine. Most are things that inform or have sparked ideas. There are over 100 files in the Sacred Scars folder with labels like “Long term effects of fasting and starvation, UCLA study”, “Pick mining and airflow management 1889”, “Terra Cotta Warriors, mercury lake” and so on. I also use a digital recorder, with separate files for separate projects. I had 185 breathless little messages from me to me by the time I finished the first draft. As silly as it sounds, hearing my own voice, excited by some idea, a clever plot-dot-connector, or whatever, takes me right back to the spark. Jotted notes are much stiffer, less juicy."