3/1-3/7 Book Buddy Happenings!
BBs:
Quiet week for us, but we made it to March! Daylight savings is on the 8th, and then after that we will limp into spring after this bonkers winter. WE CAN DO IT.
Here’s what’s up for this upcoming week:
Feedback Group Submission Schedules!
IRL Group Wednesdays @ beautyland 6:30-8:30: Next meeting is March 4 Genna and Chris have pages due ASAP. Rich has to miss the next meeting on March 18 which means he’ll punt his slot til the following meeting. Aimee and Johanna do you want to snag floor time for the 18th? We can decide next time we meet.
Noon Crew Thursdays 12pm - 1:30: The next meeting is March 5 and Ezra will have the floor. His pages are already out! The following meeting is on March 19 and Jill will have the floor with pages due on March 12.
Weirdlings Wednesdays 12pm - 1:30: We meet again on March 4 and Elizabeth has the floor. Pages are already in! Dana has got the floor on March 18th with stuff due by March 11.
Kool Kids Thursdays at 7pm - 8:30: Our next meeting is March 12. Elli and Kristin will have the floor with pages due on March 6 (Elli’s already sent hers!). We will also welcome Susan back from her hiatus!
OG Crew Thursdays at 7:30pm - 9: The next meeting is on March 5,Garth and Kristina will have the floor and pages are already in. We meet again on March 19. Malavika and Tom are up in the rotation depending on scheduling. We’ll solidify that next meeting!
Saturday besties 12:30pm - 2: The next meeting is March 14 with floor time for Helen and Ali. Pages are due March 7. Also potential that we’ll start at 1 instead of 12:30. TBD!
Book Buddies Being a Big Deal
You all are doing so many cool things lately.
Send you your cool announcements!
March 15 Virtual Retreat Coming For You
Most of you know that I am on the hunt for a new space to do in person retreats. In the interim, I’m offering a short 5 hour virtual retreat on Sunday March 15 from 12-5pmEST (on zoom). It’s just $60 with the option to add on a 30 minute coaching sesh if you want. Here’s the schedule:
We’ll meet on zoom at noon and share our work plans for the day with each other. (12-12:30ish)
Write, write, write. Camera off. If you sign up for an additional 30 minute coaching session we’ll do that during the window. (12:30ish - 4:15/4:30 depending on size of group!)
We’ll report out on how it went, then make a plan for the next leg of work on your project. (4:30 -5)
No sharing and feedback like we do in gen writing/in person retreats. This is a get it done and process talk sort of scene, ideal for folks who have been itching to get a full day of uninterrupted writing in but also want to spend a day in cozy clothes.
Gen Writing Prompt for this Week:
March 3 and March 7, 2026
The Concept
I have been thinking a lot about something a friend told me recently about query letters which is that it’s much easier to pitch a concept than plot. This is interesting to me because a concept can be a container for plot, but a story does not a concept make. In some ways, all a concept is is a writing prompt! The concept — usually a “what would happen if” sort of set up — offers something nonnegotiable about the story that you can build a plot around, so that’s what we’re going to do today. Concepts that are currently in the zeitgeist are: Sky Daddy is about a woman who has a sexual infatuation with planes. In The Hunger Games the concept is: a totalitarian regime (the Capitol) forces its twelve subjugated districts to annually provide one boy and one girl "tribute" (ages 12-18) to fight to the death in a televised arena. Jurassic Park asks what if scientists cloned Dinosaurs and then opened a theme park?
So this week, let’s imagine a plot derived from one of the following concepts:
Vampires at band camp
Humans start birthing non-human animals
A person believed they are actually a horse trapped in a human body
Humans forget that violence is a thing
Cats take over a government
Aliens save humanity
Humans colonize under the ocean after developing the ability to breath under water
Trees talk
Electrical appliances become alive once plugged in
There is a second earth across the galaxy living an alternate timeline (I’m stealing this from a movie I loved called Another Earth)
More soon. Keep writing, my dearest Book Buddies. You are the best on earth.
Your Bestie —
Kate
