Thunder Road

Adult characters are often absent in YA fiction. That’s absent as in deceased, missing, always working/on holidays … and generally of minor relevance to the plot lines.

When you’re starting a story, it’s handy to have a few notes to help keep your characters consistent.

When creating characters you need to look for the story behind the story.

I’ve been thinking a lot about narrative voices lately, prompted in part by a book where the characters were strong but their voices all sounded a little same-ish to me.