YA Reading

[ewein2412]

Hey, Raya, this is for you. Have you ever read any Sherwood Smith, aka sartorias? She's got an interesting discussion going on YA Reading--for the YAs--inviting comments from teens in general, though most of the responses have been from the high upper end of teendom. Tell yer friends.

Comments

[marguerlucy.livejournal.com]

Is this just a writing for fun that you're doing now? How often do you do that - write smaller pieces for character and relationship expansion? Its almost like actors doing improvised scenes to delve deeper into their character and relationship.

Goewin's young age is definitely stressed in Coalition of Lions, so it isn't too much of a step (for me) to still be aware of her youth in Sunbird. And for the time, by the age of 22 I'd assume people were pretty much living "adult lives." But definitely by today's standards... lol i'm like "Oh so you're essentially ruling a country ... I'm three years older than you and I still live with my mom."

[ewein2412]

I dunno if you can call anything I write "for fun" anymore. It's more like addiction. How often do I write smaller pieces for character expansion? well, never. But I do act stuff out in my head. It kind of amounts to the same thing. I wish I wrote more stuff that just wasn't intended for publication (or public reading). My notebooks are full of comments like, "Gee, I wish I could remember that conversation so-and-so had while I was sitting on the bus last week."

lol i'm like "Oh so you're essentially ruling a country ... I'm three years older than you and I still live with my mom."

lol yourself... I keep meeting these 16-year-old kids (often close relations) and thinking to myself, "Hmmmm. High King of Britain? . . . nah."