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We love fantasy novels in which the characters think that they're peasants but turn out to be princes and kings.
Occasionally people ask me how it is I write different types of things, and my answer to that is it's very natural. You get bored writing one kind of thing all the time.
I've always enjoyed that kind of thing - thinking about the production of narrative and why it is that when we read a novel, we don't notice the fact that someone who might be very close-mouthed or tight-lipped is perfectly willing to tell us a story in 600 or 700 pages.
It's insulting to believe that teens should have a different kind of book than an adult should.
Teens are not like the weird, dumb dwarves you have around your house. They are actually you when you were younger.
We must curb ourfury, and allow sadness to diminish, and speak our stories with coolness and deliberation.
I was someone who really loved fantasy novels and science fiction novels.
Why not write a book which is as sophisticated as a book for an adult, but is about the concerns that teenagers actually have?
The bedroom in my apartment is far too small to hold a nightstand. There is, however, this bookshelf. Yes, I stow whatever I'm reading on the lower shelf, but more importantly, it's where I keep a collection of ghost books.
I eat broccoli. I think about the plot. I pace in circles for hours, counter-clockwise, listening to music. I try to think of one detail in the scene I'm about to write that I'm really excited about writing. Until I can come up with that one detail, I pace.
I feel like it's important every once in a while to estrange ourselves from the familiar to remind ourselves of the potentialities of people, how many different ways there are of being.
Sometimes reading other writers helps. You learn some little technique that turns out to be useful, or simply are reinspired by the amazing things others do.
I completely love music. I used to be the music critic at 'The Improper Bostonian.' It's just something I've always loved very deeply.
