Brent Runyon
Brent Runyon
Brent Runyonis a contemporary writer for young adults. He has written three books. The first is a memoir, The Burn Journals; the other two are novels, Maybe, and Surface Tension: A Novel in Four Summers. The Burn Journals has been nominated for a Georgia Peach Award for Young Readers...
ProfessionWriter
memories writing
I write in a rush of memory.
eye thinking color
So what does that make you think about God? I think that maybe, if human beings have souls, that maybe their souls are in their eyes. That maybe that's what the color is. Their souls.
people introvert problem
The only problem with seeing people you know is that they know you.
thinking worry upset
Before everything, I used to do this thing when I was upset-I used to take all my feelings and push them down inside me. It was like they were garbage and I was compacting it to get more in. I felt like I could keep pushing all my feelings down into my socks and I wouldn't have to worry about them. I don't think I do that anymore.
writing thinking trying
I hardly ever think about audience. I just try to tell a story for me. I write the kind of story I would like to read.
book writing work-out
Now I'm trying to work outside first person. I do plan to write more books.
mother father family-and-friends
I didn't have my own journals, but my mother kept a journal while I was in the hospital, and my father wrote newsletters to keep friends and family updated on my progress.
book writing kids
Maybe I would have become an actor. I was a very outgoing kid, but being in the hospital - being outside of social action for so long - turned me into an observer. Actually, right after I got out of the hospital, I did start writing a novel, but the book was so transparently about me that I stopped.