“I think when you’re writing for middle school it’s easy to fall into stereo types…One of the fun things is to try and disrupt those and turn those things upside down.” Rob Harrell talks about his new novel – Wink – Surviving middle school with one eye open. “So much change happens between…the end of fifth grade and the beginning of ninth grade.. In middle school you start to develop an identity… I know for me it was the first time I had a friend that my parents weren’t crazy about. There was something magical about that. “
Don’t wait around for someone to give you the secret…It’s really just a question of sitting down and doing it.
I have never met anybody who was glad that they stopped taking music lessons, but I’ve met a lot of people who were sorry that they didn’t keep up with it.
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