I always wanted to be a novelist, from the time that I was a little kid and first learned that such a job existed. I decided to attempt my first novel when I was a teenager, and I thought it was going to be easy--that I'd no doubt be published before I graduated from high school. It obviously didn't work that way. It would be ten years of learning the craft and abandoning novels that weren't working before I had my first novel published. [In recent years a handful of teen written coming-of-age novels have been published.]
Marissa Meyer in Children's Writer's and Illustrator's Market, edited by Chuck Sambuchino, 2013
Marissa Meyer in Children's Writer's and Illustrator's Market, edited by Chuck Sambuchino, 2013
S.E. Hinton wrote the now-classic "The Outsiders" when she was in high school. I recently re-read it as a 65-year-old and was frankly astonished at how I could still identify with it.
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