I’m honored to have an article featured in the summer 2011 issue of HUNGER MOUNTAIN, the Vermont College of Fine Arts’ wonderful journal of the arts. In “Where the Teens Are: 5 Ways to Freshen Up YA Fiction’s Favorite Settings,” I offer writers tips for making familiar teen fiction settings like school and the main character’s room feel provocative instead of inevitable. Click on over to Hunger Mountain for more.
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Thanks, Deborah. These are great tips. I love the running gag touch. Reminds me of George Bailey in It’s a Wonderful Life” and how perturbed he got every time he touched the knob at the bottom of the stair banister and it would come loose. Those kind of details enrich a story.
Great example, Lynn. I didn’t remember that.