SF North/East Bay: Sticky Note Plotting and Drafting the Dreaded Synopsis
Dec 06, 2025
Online event
Get ready for a double-header featuring two powerhouse kidlit writers! In Painless Plot Pointers: Sticky Note Plotting, David Macinnis Gill shares how to use sticky notes to visualize your plot, identify key scenes, weave in a seamless B-story, and bring out character arcs in draft or revision. In Drafting the Dreaded Synopsis, Martha Brockenbrough shares what a synopsis is, what it isn't, how it's used, and how it can sharpen your manuscript. Register by December 3!
Event Info
WHEN
Saturday, December 6, 2025
10:00am - 12:30pm
WHERE
Live Zoom session - watch from anywhere!
REGISTRATION INFO
Registration closes Wednesday, December 3 at 9:00pm! Register by clicking the green Register for Event button at the top of this page.
Registrants will receive a link to the video recording after the event.
QUESTIONS?
Contact Dean Gloster or Will Wolfe.
Your Hosts
David Macinnis Gill
is the award-winning author of Zombie Train, Uncanny, Black Hole Sun, Invisible Sun, Rising Sun, and Soul Enchilada as well as The Sticky Note Plot: A Step-by-Step Guide to Plotting Novels that Sell. He also teaches other people how to write, at the new University of San Francisco MFA program in Writing for Young Readers.
Martha Brockenbrough
is the acclaimed author of books for adults and a dozen YA, MG, chapter books and picture books for children, including At the Edge of Lost, A Gift of Dust, To Catch a Thief, Future Tense, Unpresidented, Alexander Hamilton, Revolutionary, The Game of Love and Death, and I Am an American: The Wong Kim Ark Story (with Grace Lin). She is the Program Director for the new University of San Francisco MFA program in Writing for Young Readers.