Here's you schedule for Day 5 and don't forget, through the Memorial Day Weekend, the Guys Lit Wire Book Fair for Boys is still going strong~!

Jenny Davidson at Chasing Ray: ""I had a fairly strong sense of the sequence of events leading up to the medium’s murder, but after that, it was pretty much all a blank, except for two things: Sophie’s discovery of the zombiefied girls at IRYLNS and the showdown at the dynamite factory. So I had to just write it out and figure out what happened as I went along."

Rebecca Stead at Fuse Number 8: "And one day I just lost my sense of the book’s internal logic. I had this sudden horrible certainty that the whole thing could never stand up. I remember being in my bedroom and experiencing a wave of nausea. And I called my dad, who is the person who introduced me to science fiction when I was a kid, and watched lots of Star Trek with me, and who has this great way of enjoying speculative fiction and taking it very seriously at the same time."

Ryan Mecum at Writing and Ruminating: "If for some truly bizarre reason a zombie mutilation forced me to categorize Zombie Haiku, which oddly enough happened about a month ago (swine flu situation, it mostly all worked out [lost a few cats]), I would say that the book is a collection of small poems that are like photographs from a terrible vacation."

Lauren Myracle at Little Willow: "I cannot think of one single book I've written that hasn't made some grown-up or other upset/uncomfortable/afraid. It kind of sucks, but I'm not going to let that resistance push me down. The thing is? Really? The characters in my books (well, not counting the ones that, ya know, commit horrible acts) have strong moral compasses; it's just that the situations they put themselves in are "real" and un-prettied-up by fake adult perspective."

Kristin Cashore at Hip Writer Mama: "Would you care for a lesson in how to construct a bow, tan leather using only natural tools, or make snowshoes? Because I have all that info on my desk here somewhere… let’s see, I can also tell you the basic principles of martial arts and how long it takes to cross various terrain by foot, horse, and ship. Oh, and how to build a fire."

Rachel Caine at The Ya Ya Yas: "All a writer really has is their readers, and if the readers are enthusiastic and loyal, there’s not much benefit in discouraging them, especially in the young adult market. I want to encourage and nurture creativity."

[Post title from Ryan Mecum.]