In the nicest way possible, I write characters who are dumb as hell. Just - shit-for-brains. YA protagonists are always too smart. I am stupid now and I was absolutely clueless at seventeen. I accept that. I want more teenagers thinking they know what’s going on but being an unreliable narrator because they absolutely do not. I want teenagers using the absolute wrong word with confidence that they are right. I want teenage characters having the false sense of invincibility that comes with an underdeveloped pre-frontal cortex who realize halfway through their stupid ass idea that they fucked up. I want teenaged characters to get suddenly nervous that the nice thing they’re in the middle of doing is actually just cringe as hell. Just. Kids being kids, meaning kids being dumb.

















