Enjoy!
How
did you find writing a YA novel, compared to writing articles and such?
Novel writing and nonfiction writing are so
different for me that it’s almost like talking about what it’s like to visit
two different planets, or maybe like speaking two different languages. Whether
it’s reviews or articles or blogging, nonfiction comes to me much faster and it
also tends to go through much less rigorous revision. Writing a novel is like
chasing a whirlwind with a butterfly net. And, if you’re lucky, after a great
deal of work managing to catch that whirlwind, which is actually a story, and
then showing it to other people and hoping they say, “Oh, that’s a story,” and not, “What is that? It just looks like a big mess of
stuff blowing around.”
