Why does sarah dessen write

After so much success so early in her career, what's next for Dessen? But the young adult readers are so devoted and genuinely affected by the books. There's a passion there I'm not sure I would find other places, so I won't be going anywhere anytime soon. May Sarah Dessen.

Picture perfect. Interview by Julie Hale. Share this Article:. Share on facebook. Share on twitter. Share on pinterest. Share on email. Get the Book. I didn't want them to be dated at all. But there are certain things you can't ignore. I don't think you can write about teenagers without texting [anymore]. It would be like you're writing about people on the moon! You're just making stuff up! I think it's making peace with that and figuring out the best way to do it.

The Rest of the Story does deal with addiction, which is something you've dealt with before, like in your book Lock and Key. Did you handle it differently this time around? And I was like, 'Oh! Stealing my thing! I was really intrigued by the number of younger people that started showing up in the obituaries about five, six years ago.

I feel like the world is okay, or at least, things are as they should be, if you read the obituaries and it's all elderly people who lived wonderful lives. But when you see a really young person on the obituary page, it's so jarring. When I was writing Lock and Key, I wasn't dealing with the death. I was just dealing with the abandonment. So The Rest of the Story was just the next step of that story and [its] also where our society has gone. We're in this epidemic right now.

And a lot of kids are dealing with it. I think we're going to see more books covering this now, not less. In your books, a lot of the romances always revolve around words and wordplay. Even in The Rest of the Story, Roo [the love interest] has his five sentence descriptions. It was like that quirky guy who never had gas money and was funny. Who you see in class and makes you laugh. As a writer, when you're writing two people who are crushing on each other, it's just fun!

She made her novel writing debut three years after graduation in The Summer was a novel about a youth dealing with rapid changes in family and friends relationship dynamics. The book was split in three portions each one showing progress and decline in relationships.

No one comes forward to comfort her in this time of need, not even her mother, boyfriend or coworkers. Things get worse for Macy as her boyfriend breaks up with her and she has to deal with that on top of everything. Q: This is your 10th book. Has your writing process or your view of writing changed? I learn something from every book, and hope to use that and not make the same mistake the next time.

Q: Why do you incorporate Chapel Hill into your books, with it being the inspiration for Lakeview? But I learned in my writing classes at UNC that writing about a real place opens up the possibility of people disagreeing with you about landmarks, distances and things like that.

A fictional town, a fictional universe, means nobody is an expert but me. Just the way I like it! A: Be disciplined. Write every day, at the same time.