What is your opinion of the writing process? What is your process? Are all processes equal?Įvery writer has to find the process that works best – and what works best for one book might not work with the next.
I love writing for young people because inside this middle-aged woman’s body lives a strong, vibrant inner teen- an inner teen that still wants to believe that the world should be fair and just, and refuses to stop examining, questioning, and fighting until it is. I bookmark news stories I find interesting in a “book ideas” folder, and go back to that when I’m brainstorming. I also wrote opinion columns for 14 years, and am still a politics and news junkie. I also write humorous middle grade, because I’m a reasonably funny person in real life, and my YA body of work didn’t reflect that.
My primary genre is contemporary realistic fiction for young adults – my Scholastic editor, Jody Corbett, calls me “The Dick Wolf of YA.” I’m particularly fascinated by the intersection of young people and technology – my last four YA novels have explored different aspects of how growing up in a technology driven world affects what is already a very tumultuous time, emotionally, physically, and hormonally. why you write in this genre, how you discovered it, what you love most about it…) Her novel Backlash won the Iowa Teen Book Award. Sarah also teaches at the Yale Writers’ Workshop. Her first novel, Confessions of a Closet Catholic, won the 2006 Sydney Taylor Book Award for Older Readers. She also wrote political opinion for fourteen years,with Hearst Newspapers and. WCSU Mentor Sarah Darer Littman is an award-winning author of over 16 books for young people, including Fairest of Them All and Anything But Okay.
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