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
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.
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.
characters directions discover happen ideas originally plot thinking time trick twists
Before I start, I trick myself into thinking I know what's going to happen in the story, but the characters have ideas of their own, and I always go with the character's choices. Most of the time I discover plot twists and directions that are better than what I originally had planned.
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.
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
darkness blind impression
Getting to know someone in blind darkness changes your impression of them.
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.
engineering bridges islands
He only wishes there were something that would heal the scars in his mind, which he can still feel. He sees his mind now as an archipelago of islands that he labors to build bridges between - and while he's had great success engineering the most spectacular of bridges, he suspects there are some islands that he'll never reach.
deeds firsts easy
This is not going to be easy. I'm good at being bad, but I'm bad at being good. I don't know the first thing about good deeds.
better-person persons
You don’t just go to somebody and say, ‘I’m a better person because you’re in my head.
flesh earth natural
Makes sense, the earth is quick to consume the flesh of things that ain't natural.