Dual point of view works when each narrator contributes an irreplaceable perspective on the same conflict. This guide explains how to separate their voices, structure switches and revise two connected arcs.
Controlling relationships in YA fiction are often revealed through a gradual narrowing of the protagonist’s choices, friendships and trust in their own judgment. Here is how to recognise that pattern and decide whether a novel…
Tessa’s list is more than a set of experiences to complete before she dies. It is an attempt to reclaim agency, test boundaries and feel fully present in a life increasingly controlled by illness.
Music can translate a novel’s interior voice, complicate what appears on screen and turn private feelings into shared experiences. Here is how to hear those choices.
If you keep finding yourself drawn to teenage characters, coming-of-age stories, first experiences, complicated friendships, family tension, identity, grief, romance, rebellion, or the strange intensity of being young, then writing young adult fiction may be…
The 50 Book Challenge can bring welcome structure to a reading year, but the number should serve the reader. Here is how to set fair rules, build a varied list and track more than totals.
A spoiler-light review of Jenny Downham’s devastating, compassionate novel about a terminally ill teenager determined to claim what remains of her life.
A spoiler-light guide to Emily Bazelon’s 2011 New York Times review of Jenny Downham’s You Against Me, its qualified praise and its central moral conflict.
Jenny Downham’s Furious Thing is an emotionally intense, ultimately hopeful YA novel that treats a teenage girl’s anger as a source of insight rather than a flaw.
A spoiler-aware review of how Charlie’s friendships, incomplete memories and longing for connection turn belonging into an active, difficult process.
