![]() The author question I get asked most often now is how I am able to write from the perspective of a teenager, as if I were in that character's head. When I started seriously writing fiction, I didn't set out to write specifically for young adults, but as my writing matured, it became clear that when I got stuck writing in teen voices, it was a good place to be stuck. I can't remember a time when I wasn't trying to create stories. Konigsburg and Ellen Conford, I did get inspiration for another goal: to write. I never did get that scoliosis diagnosis, but from my favorite childhood authors such as Judy Blume, E.L. Like Deenie, my priorities eventually shifted. ![]() Although now that I live in Manhattan as an adult (with a fairly normal spine, I'm told), Elizabeth, New Jersey is more known to me as the place with the long lines at IKEA instead of as the hometown of Deenie. I wanted to look like Deenie I wanted her disease I even wanted to live in Deenie's town, Elizabeth, New Jersey, a short hop from my dream destination, New York City. The great wish of my adolescence was to be diagnosed with scoliosis. ![]()
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