The problem with high school is that everyone already knows everyone else. Unless you go to one of those huge schools with like four thousand students. Even then, people will take about two seconds to decide who you are just by how you look. In most cases, everyone has made judgments about everyone else a long time ago. These judgments are pretty much carved in stone. So you’re locked into the image of what everyone else thinks you are. Which seriously blows.
College is monumentally better. When you first get there, no one knows who you are yet. There are zero limitations to prevent you from connecting with potential new friends. You know how sometimes you plan to reinvent yourself over the summer and come back all improved? But it never seems to work out that way? Think of college as the ultimate reinvention opportunity. It’s a chance to become the person you’ve always wanted to be, the person you know you could be if you could just get away from here. Fresh starts are awesome. Yours awaits.
I was also able to ask Susane a couple questions!!
Have you noticed your writer’s voice has changed over the years due to your experience?
While I think the essence of my voice has remained the same, I am hopefully improving! I always force myself to read my books several months after they’re published. This may not sound like a big deal, but it is extremely hard for me to read my own books. However, this process is important because after I’ve had time away from what I’ve written, everything I don’t like about my work is glaringly obvious. As a result, I’m more aware of my bad writing habits. Keeping those in mind, it’s easier to identify and change them while I’m working on something new.
Describe your writing in three words.
Searching for connection
If you could trade lives with another author for a day, who would it be and why?
Meg Cabot. What’s it like to have 7,823 emails in your inbox? And so many dedicated readers? That must be freaking awesome! Plus, she lives in Key West, which I absolutely adore. Palm trees and lunches with Judy Blume are fun times.
Check out the complete tour info, here! Also follow the link to this post and leave a comment, for your chance to win a copy of Waiting for You! For two chances to win, comment on this Myth post too!
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myth #4-oh so true. college was so liberating after being stuck in the cookie cutter mentality that is high school. and i went to one of those huge schools that literally had more than 4000 students.
would love to win a copy looks like a great book.
Looks awesome! i would love 2 win a copy of this!
I agree with shawnte, myth 4 is really true. I had a friend who hated his high school life just because of that very reason. He just wanted to start over and now that he’s in college, he is altogether a different person.
…and I want Waiting for You so much!
sylvia_uy4@yahoo.com
Myth 4 is really true. I left my high school to do my A levels at college so I could make a fresh start and really be myself. I definitely made the right choice.
awesome! also I have nominated you fro anaward,http://thebookreader-thebookreader.blogspot.com/2009/05/one-lovely-blog-award.html
Lianne
uhhh, the new Jenny Han book came out yesterday! I can’t wait, and I hope you review it! http://dirtypages.blogspot.com/
So true. I sometimes wished I went to a huge school so that maybe I wouldn’t be as well known or all my embarrassing moments exposed. I guess that wouldn’t have changed anything after all, huh?
True. New friends are hard to get unless you move somewhere…
sara
Yeah! I would totally want to switch lives with Meg Cabot for a day. Good choice, Susane!
Sounds good, I’d like to be included!
This sounds great. And I love all the myths
Nice interview!
The myth is so true! In middle school I was really shy, so by the time I was in high school and ready to be more outgoing, I felt like everyone would still see me the same anyway. College is definitely better. Now I can answer questions in class and start conversations with new people.
And Susane rocks! Can’t wait for the new book.
Hmm..I still keep in touch with more high school friends than college ones.
mj.coward[at]gmail.com
I actually don’t agree with this one, but it could be because I was in marching band and band geeks have to spend so much time with each other that it’s hard NOT to form tight friendships!
Without denigrating my high school friends, there is a much smaller pool of people to try and befriend. You end up with friends who you don’t necessarily like or relate to.
In college, I was a journalism major, and in my journalism classes, I found people I could relate to and really liked! It was amazing.
joannarenee (at) mail (dot) com
This myth is so true! I went to a high school where the zoning had just changed and the kids at the high school where I was changed to had been together from 6th grade because it had been a grade 6-12 school!
purplg8r@aol.com
For me, myth #4 isn’t quite true. I didn’t find college that liberating friend wise. So many people still made snap decisions about you. Of course, it is still a good opportunity to discover who you are so I guess that’s not a myth. You just have to take advantage of it.
this myth is so true. college was so much easier to find a space to fit in.
It would be cool to check out Meg Cabot’s inbox (and have lunch with Judy Blume).