Adulthood is interesting to adults. But I would never want to write about stuff I don't feel everybody can connect to.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It feels presumptuous to think of writing for adults.
At this stage I am not involved with young adults as closely as many other writers. My children are grown up and my grandchildren are still quite young.
Maybe if I ever come to write about my teens and adulthood - and I can't imagine I will - but if I do, then maybe I will want to say a bit more about the ways in which my parents' relationship with one another impacted on me in later years.
I know I'm writing better now than I ever did for adults because I'm writing for an audience who know that they don't know everything.
I write with teenagers in mind.
I like writing about teenagers because it's a time of great change and conflict. Up to then, you accept what your parents tell you.
I like to write about teenagers because it's such an uncertain and dramatic time.
Now I don't really write for adults or kids - I don't write for kids, I write about them. I think you need to do that, otherwise you end up preaching down.
I'm obsessed with adolescence. I love to write about people in their 20s. It's such a fraught and exciting and kind of horrible time.
There are so many fun things that you live that you can write about and people of all ages can connect to.