The Difference Between Writing for Children and Writing for Adults

It’s about more than just word choice.

Shaunta Grimes
The Every Day Novelist
4 min readAug 14, 2019

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A big part of my graduate study was trying to find the line between writing for children (or young adults) and writing about children for adults.

I wrote a paper once that looked at Megan Abbott’s The End of Everything and Ali Benjamin’s The Thing About

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Shaunta Grimes
The Every Day Novelist

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