We couldn’t resist making one.
2011 in YA: Year of the Hashtag! We take a look back at the year’s big news in today’s Field Trip Friday.
I LOVE THIS PIE CHART.
“Harry Potter ending, just like your childhood.” Don’t remind me. :( I’ve been devoted to that franchise for 15 years now—over half my life!
This is my life. (My ID card got demagnetized last week. This is the second time that’s happened.)
(Source: ryangoslingpublishing)
YA as Genre or Reading Level?
Somewhere around 20, I learned the meaning of nostalgia. Of course I aware of its dictionary definition, but I hadn’t understood it until then. It’s an emotion unto itself, one I lacked at 16. With nostalgia came perspective, an ability to look back on my life with distance. Before, I could only see what was right in front of me, and what caused me pain was immediate, fresh, and seemingly unending. Before, I could only write of that pain as it happened to me. Now, I can write of that pain when it happened to me, and the immediacy is gone, replaced by something else: insight. Somewhere around 20, I began to grow up.
In my opinion, emotional immediacy is what characterizes YA more than anything else. More thoughts on the click-through.
She has…scrapbook issues.
Cap’n Sweet Valley on an author needing 6 more jacket flats
There is such a fine line between dating an immortal and dating the undead.
David Levithan on having a vampire boyfriend vs. a zombie boyfriend
From my fabulous colleague Terra, riffing from Hyperbole and a Half, of course.
Writers don’t have holidays. Just panic attacks and depressions.
An email from a writer after Cap’n Sweet Valley asked about having lunch on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day
