Sarah Mlynowski is amazingly versatile, talented, classy, and nice! She answers this question for us today: What’s it like to write for both teens and adults?
I definitely feel more pressure writing for teens in terms of my own responsibility as a writer.
Fourteen is far more impressionable than 24. Finding the balance between reflecting reality and forming reality is a lot trickier. I’m extra careful about using labels, or having characters swear, drink or hook up...When my teen characters are 14, I tend to write them as if they’re 12, because I know readers like to read up.
When I write for adults, a 23 year old is a 23 year old. And that includes the 23 year old’s bad behavior in all of its glory. (Or at least my bad behavior at 23...)
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