![]() Writing for children is bloody difficult books for children are as complex as their adult counterparts and they should therefore be accorded the same respect. The other question I find myself having to answer at least once a week is: 'What's the difference between writing for children and writing for adults?' Almost every journalist asks: 'Where did you get the idea from?' And because of my protagonist's obsession with the unpleasantness of yellow and brown, quite a few have asked: 'What's your favourite colour?', not something Monica Ali or Jonathan Franzen have to field very often. In other ways, nothing has changed at all. In some ways, it has changed my life completely. ![]() To my continuing amazement, it seems to have spread round the world like some particularly infectious rash. ![]() It was published in two identical editions with different covers, one for adults and one for teenagers. ![]() Three years ago, I wrote The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, a novel set in Swindon about a teenage boy with Asperger's syndrome who discovers a murdered poodle on a neighbour's lawn. I explained that most of my work consisted of crossing out and that crossing out was the secret of all good writing. The best question I ever received came from a boy who asked whether I did much crossing out. ![]()
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