Young writers only take off when they find their subjects. Since almost everyone has a family and stories about family, that is often a place to start.
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I really look up to writers who are able to write compressed, single-scene stories, where everything happens in a kitchen. But I just can't think that way. For me it would be impossible to write a story where I didn't know what someone's parents did and what their grandparents did and who they used to date.
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 do a lot of writing about my family.
My parents were avid readers. Both had ambitions to write that had been abandoned early in life in order to get on with life.
Writers will happen in the best of families.
There are dozens of great American writers who write about the family.
There's a lot of young authors out there, and people do seem to forget: in order to write well, you do need to have some experience.
With family dramas, it's hard to keep those stories alive.
A lot of first novels are coming-of-age stories. A lot are autobiographical.
As a reader, I'm often put off by authors and story-lines without families or children and all of the angst and joy they bring with them.
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