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WRITING FOR TEENS OR TWEENS? THEN THINK LIKE ONE: CRAFTING A YOUTHFUL NARRATIVE VOICE AND SENSIBILITY IN YA/MG FICTION

  • 19 Apr 2025
  • 1:00 PM - 4:00 PM
  • Online via Zoom
  • 7 registrants

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Writing for Teens or Tweens?
Then Think Like One:
Crafting a Youthful Narrative Voice
and Sensibility in YA/MG Fiction

with Deborah Halverson


Whether your narrator is your young main character or an all-knowing omniscient being, there are ways to convince young readers that you understand them and their view of the world—and to hook’em good and hard in the process. This session teaches techniques for creating a narrative sensibility and voice that reflects the way teens and tweens think, resulting in novels that “click” with young readers.

 

ABOUT THE SPEAKER

DEBORAH HALVERSON is the award-winning author of Writing Young Adult Fiction for Dummies and Writing New Adult Fiction, as well as numerous teen novels, books in a series for struggling readers, and a picture book. Formerly an editor at Harcourt Children's Books and now a freelance editor specializing in picture books and Young Adult/Middle Grade fiction and nonfiction, Deborah has been working with authors—bestsellers, veterans, debut, and aspiring—for twenty-five years. She is also the founder of the popular writers’ advice site DearEditor.com and serves on the advisory board for the UC San Diego Extension “Children’s Book Writing and Illustrating” certificate program. DeborahHalverson.com / Connect with Deborah on your social media platforms: https://linktr.ee/deborahhalverson





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