ALAN Workshop-Gail Giles
ALAN Workshop
Boredom is the mother of creativity. What is the need to uncover the dangerous behavior in teens? Teens have no center in the brain for considering future consequences of ones actions. Or if they do have that center, it is not very well developed.
One of their common dark urges is rage against their teachers, their parents and other students. They do not realize that their expectations of what the consequences of their actions are unrealistic if they don't have adult guides to help them. It's like the Brothers Grimm: show the readers the dark woods and hope they don't venture in.
Giles looks at her writing as allowing teens to peer into the abyss without taking the chance of falling over the edge. She wants the reader to live their darkness in fiction. Let the character live in the dark, and let the reader suffer the consequences vicariously.
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