Neal Shusterman
Neal Shusterman
Neal Shustermanis an American writer of young-adult fiction. He won the National Book Award for Young People's Literature for Challenger Deep...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth12 November 1962
CityBrooklyn, NY
CountryUnited States of America
chapter colors computer divides last manuscript text turn
I have a color-coded computer spreadsheet that divides things down to chapter fragments. Each character's point-of-view is a different color. The text of the manuscript is color-coded the same way. The last thing I do before submitting the manuscript is turn all those colors back to black.
although asked became calling divide editor felt sequel took trilogy
I thought 'UnSouled' would come in at around 400 pages, but it took 650 pages, and even then I felt like I was rushing the conclusion, so I asked my editor and publisher if I could divide it again. So a sequel became a trilogy, and the trilogy became a tetralogy - although we're not calling it that.
misunderstood affliction three
Mental illness is by far the most misunderstood, and stigmatized, of all afflictions. Statistically, one in three families in the U.S. deals with mental illness, and yet it's rarely discussed in the open. It's time for that to change.
tangled humanity life-is
Either things happen for a reason, or they happen for no reason at all. Either one's life is a thread in a glorious tapestry or humanity is just a hopelessly tangled knot.
kind used freaky
Touch is a freaky thing when you're not used to it. It makes you feel all kinds of things.
ships firsts captains
the captain is supposed to go down with the ship" . "unless the first mate knocks him out and throws him in a lifeboat
unprepared
When you live a life without questions, you're unprepared for the questions when they come.
unconscious bruised battered
Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.
darkness blind impression
Getting to know someone in blind darkness changes your impression of them.
textbooks cases written
What do you do with a textbook case when no one's written the textbook?
dna stranger collections
A family is a collection of strangers trapped in a web of DNA and forced to cope.
vectors movement states
Happiness is not a state of being. Happiness is a vector, it is movement.
princess sleep heart
The eternally sleeping princess, thinks Cam. But I shall free you from those poisoned brambles that surround your heart. And then you will have no choice but to love me.
new-beginnings stories
...New Beginning to the same old story