Writing Tricks From Successful Young Adult Authors
“Rainbow Rowell never set out to be a YA author. Her first book, Attachments, was for and about adults, and though Eleanor & Park is a teenage love story set in 1986, her approach to writing younger characters was the same. It was only after the novel was finished that she learned it would be YA, and even then, the decision was debated…When the adult perspective creeps its way into a YA book, readers notice, too.” (The Atlantic)
