What is your emotional age as you write?
I’m really eleven. Maybe twelve. Smack dab in the middle of shy, snarky, harsh, tender, let loose, hold on, tell me the truth, don’t tell me anything years old. I’m naive yet cynical. I question tiny things and huge things and things that don’t need questioning and when I get the answers, I’m almost never satisfied.
Which is why I love writing for children.
The world is too big for me, but I find small ways to be truly amazed – a tiny breath of breeze on a spring day, the way it flows over and around me as I stand perfectly still in my front yard, the smoothness of glass, the smell of freshly cut hay from our fields, the sunrise on a foggy morning.
How would you describe your emotional age as you write?
S. K. Van Zandt 
I would probably be like 60 or so. I am the quiet, thinking, wise type of person that sees what is meant to be seen and the meanings that not everybody sees.
Ceylan
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My best writing seems to come when I tap into my inner second or third grade self. (I actually wrote a blog post about this a while ago as I started trying to write a novel about a middle schooler. Wow, does it feel uncomfortable to me to revisit my middle school self! Such an awkward time that was!)
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