Fear Can Give You Urgent Wings.

Anyone Interested In The World Generally Can't Help Being Interested In Young Adult Culture - In The Music, The Bands, The Books, The Fashions, And The Way In Which The Young Adult Community Develops Its Own Language.

When You Are Writing, Of Course, You Have To Do All That Writing And Correcting For Yourself. When I Was A Librarian It Was Expected That I Would Know About A Wide Range Of Books.

When You Are Reading, Someone Has Done A Lot Of Work On Your Behalf, Someone Has Had Ideas And Has Then Written And Corrected And Improved Them So That They Can Be Shared.

In A Way, The Characters Often Do Take Over.

Writing For Young Children I Find I Often Use Particular Jokes With Words And Exaggerated, Funny Events, But Some Of These Haunt The More Complex Stories For Older Children Too.