I tend to write about more than one generation because as a child I had contact with more than one generation; it was normal to be around older people.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
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.
I've been writing about growing old for some time, really from the beginning of my career. It's something I'm apparently hung up about and now that I am old, hopefully I speak about it with some authority.
I don't think I prefer writing for one age group above another. I am just as pleased with a story which I feel works well for very small children as I do with a story for young adults.
I write about kids growing up, I write a lot about schools and parents, and all of my experiences with those things have been suburban experiences.
I've been writing since I was 19.
Every writer is a writer of the generation before.
I'm an older generation.
Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
I started to write when I was eighteen or nineteen. However, until I was about twenty-three, I didn't take it that seriously.
You can try to reach an audience, but you just write what comes out of you and you just hope that it is accepted. You do not write specifically to a generation.