Revision means throwing out the boring crap and making what’s left sound natural.
Laurie Halse Anderson
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Revision is not making something wrong into something right. It’s about clarifying.
Laurie Halse Anderson
Revision is not making something
the impossible knife of memory
the impossible knife of memory (Viking, 2014) by Laurie Halse Anderson is a good book for those wanting to understand PTSD. It’s told from the viewpoint of a teen girl.
Hayley doesn’t know which father she’ll have when she comes home from school each day. The one who cares about her? The one having an attack of memory? Or the dead-to-the-world-sleeping-all-day one? Will he have gone to work? Will he want dinner? Or will he be drunk or drugged? But she’s expected to deal with starting a new school as a Senior anyway. That’d be difficult enough for most kids, but for the past five years Hayley’s been home schooled in her daddy’s big rig. How can she fit in with the zombies at school and keep her dad safe?
There’s an interview of Laurie about this book in USA Today (August 2013).
Her next book coming out on October 4th is Ashes, the final in the American Revolution trilogy which includes Chains and Forge. There’s a website for the trilogy here.
Being a teenager usually sucks. It’s hard and confusing and few adults have the guts to talk about it honestly. That’s my job.
Being a teenager usually sucks
Reading blogs will not turn you into a published author. Writing blogs won’t either. Writing books will. You have precious little time after your other responsibilities and if the goal is to write a book, well, then… write it.