Lisa Yee on writing YA.

From PW:

How is writing for teens different from writing for middle-schoolers?

I got so immersed in writing the book that I didn’t even think of the audience. It was kind of liberating being a teen for a while, though. I went through a period of swearing a lot. My husband finally asked what was going on, and I told him, “I’m a teenage runaway right now.” As it turned out, I cut out a lot of the swearing. It wasn’t true to Maybelline’s character.

Heh.  I'm glad that someone else goes on swearing kicks like that -- the air in our house is always blue after we've been watching Deadwood.  I'm really looking forward to reading Absolutely Maybe.  Which reminds me that I need to write about Something, Maybe.