by Pat Marcello | Dec 1, 2010 | Writing
When you think about kids in college or upper high school grades and you’re my age, you’re thinking… babies. Considering the difference in our ages, it’s probably understandable, but when you’re writing for teens, you’d better get...
by Pat Marcello | Nov 30, 2010 | Writing
When I think of teen readers, I’m thinking of kids that are looking toward college or careers, but in truth, your real audience will rarely exceed fifteen years of age. Why? Because the teens we’re gearing our material toward are probably already reading...
by Pat Marcello | Nov 29, 2010 | Writing
You might imagine that writing for teenagers is much like writing for adults. In the fiction genre, you’d be right. Teens can handle almost as much as adults, but remember these kids are between about 16 and 21. They have the appropriate vocabulary in most...
by Pat Marcello | Nov 28, 2010 | Writing
Yes, the title is a bit of a joke, though writing a banned book will often take you to the top of the charts at Amazon and Barnes and Noble. 🙂 It seems that this is the age where the banned books occur — for young adult readers. Yep. It’s true. Some...
by Pat Marcello | Nov 26, 2010 | Writing
Most kids love comic books. I remember when I was a little girl, my dad used bring one home to me every day after he was finished working. I’m talking Richie Rich, Archie, Dennis the Menace… pretty much benign fare, and as humor is a MAJOR emphasis in our...
by Pat Marcello | Nov 25, 2010 | Writing
When you think young adult, you’re probably imagining a person over twenty. Yet, when it comes to writing, it means their “reading” age, not their chronological one. A young adult reader is probably in the 6th to 8th grades, or loosely 10 –...
