I’ve heard other authors
say the best way to write for
young audiences was to treat
them as a regular audience
instead of talking down to
them. Is that how you feel?
Absolutely. I hate books that
talk down to teenagers – or to
anybody, really. Not that curse
words are particularly sophisticated, but I think that, when
you’re a teenager, you want to
be an adult, and I know for my
friends and I growing up, our
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impression was that being an
adult meant peppering your
speech with a lot of “colorful metaphors” (as Mr. Spock
would say.) Of course, then you
actually grow up and realize
that the adult world, linguistically speaking, is not necessarily the Reservoir Dogs scenario
you’d imagined. (Unless you
end up w orking in a urologists’
office, in which case it’s much,
much worse.)
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