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Krista Noorman
Hi Colleen. Not sure which book you are specifically referring to, but I would say my YA books (The Truth About Drew and 18 Hours to Us) are for 13+. They are clean books, as in no sex or bad language, but they do have kissing scenes and discussions of premarital sex (in both books the characters want to wait until marriage), and 18 Hours touches on bullying and suicide. So I guess it is up to you as a parent whether you think your 11 year old is mature enough for those things. If you have any more questions, feel free to reply to this or private message me. Thanks for asking. :)
Krista Noorman
I'm editing my way through my second book right now, the first one I wrote for NaNoWriMo back in 2008. It's a fun, romantic, chick lit novel about a wedding photographer (hmmm ... wonder where I came up with the inspiration for that character? check my bio!). I won't give too much away right now. Stay tuned. ;)
Krista Noorman
My favorite thing, by far, is creating characters and seeing what they'll do. I'm always amazed how they take on a life of their own and do things I didn't expect them to. That's always strange to say since they came from my brain, but it's true.
Second best thing ... working in my p.j.'s. ;)
Second best thing ... working in my p.j.'s. ;)
Krista Noorman
I wasn't even going to write this book.
My husband and I participated in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) in November 2008. It was a fun experience and I completed the task of writing 50,000 words in 30 days (Yikes!), but I didn't think I would ever do it again. It was one of those things that I did just to see if I could accomplish it. Kind of a bucket list sort of thing. "One day I want to write a novel." I had always been a journal writer and wrote short stories in school, but I never thought I would do this for a living and love it as much as I do.
So, when it was time for NaNoWriMo in 2009, my hubby asked if I was going to go for it again.
"Nah!" was my reply. The other book was still sitting on my hard drive untouched after a year. Why would I want to start another one?
But a few days later, I was driving my kids to school and thinking of a story idea I had a long time ago about a teenage girl with a best friend who isn't really there. When I first came up with the idea, I thought he might be her imaginary friend or something like that, but she didn't realize that he wasn't real. (Don't worry ... that is NOT "the truth" about "Drew").
That day, I could not get the idea out of my head and I kept thinking about who her friend could be and what could make him really special. And then I had the "lightbulb moment" and I knew I had to write it. There was something about this idea that felt like it was very much from God and something He wanted me to write.
So I did.
My husband and I participated in NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) in November 2008. It was a fun experience and I completed the task of writing 50,000 words in 30 days (Yikes!), but I didn't think I would ever do it again. It was one of those things that I did just to see if I could accomplish it. Kind of a bucket list sort of thing. "One day I want to write a novel." I had always been a journal writer and wrote short stories in school, but I never thought I would do this for a living and love it as much as I do.
So, when it was time for NaNoWriMo in 2009, my hubby asked if I was going to go for it again.
"Nah!" was my reply. The other book was still sitting on my hard drive untouched after a year. Why would I want to start another one?
But a few days later, I was driving my kids to school and thinking of a story idea I had a long time ago about a teenage girl with a best friend who isn't really there. When I first came up with the idea, I thought he might be her imaginary friend or something like that, but she didn't realize that he wasn't real. (Don't worry ... that is NOT "the truth" about "Drew").
That day, I could not get the idea out of my head and I kept thinking about who her friend could be and what could make him really special. And then I had the "lightbulb moment" and I knew I had to write it. There was something about this idea that felt like it was very much from God and something He wanted me to write.
So I did.
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