Musing on Writing - Ages

Over the last 5 or so years, I've become very interested in writing teenagers. Which, for me, is actually pretty weird.

I was the one who was always preferred to write characters that were functionally 15-20+ years older than myself. (I say "functionally" as it covers the nonhumans and immortals, basing it around their maturity and/or equivalent age rather than literal years.) But once I hit my mid-twenties, I may not have done a total 180, but a lot of my focus certainly did shift younger. And I've been thinking about it.

( CW: chronic illness, mentions of child abuse, memory loss )