Scott Westerfeld
Scott Westerfeld
Scott David Westerfeldis an American writer of young adult fiction...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionYoung Adult Author
Date of Birth5 May 1963
CityDallas, TX
CountryUnited States of America
stories world forests
Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood why the Rusties and their predecessors had believed in invisible beings, praying to placate spirits as they trashed the natural world around them.
brain trying world
Everyone in the world was programmed by the place they were born, hemmed in by their beliefs, but you had to at least try to grow your own brain.
fire world
When she awoke, the world was on fire.
cancer humanity world
humanity is a cancer on the body of the world
world kind needed
We needed to become world-famous soon, while there was still that kind of world to be famous in...
ugly normal world
In a world of extreme beauty, anyone normal is ugly.
beautiful useless-things world
The world needed more fireworks- especially now that there was going to be a shortage of beautiful, useless things.
love-you bye world
I love you all. But it's time to say good-bye, for now. be careful with the world, or the next time we meet, it might get ugly. -Tally Youngblood
scene
Sometimes you have to delete characters from a scene just to keep from overcrowding the image.
stickers
Warning stickers on books would be a nightmare.
basically found great historical lots thesaurus
I found a great book called 'Slang Through the Ages' by Jonathon Green. It's basically a thesaurus of historical slang, and had lots of great old uses.
mostly narrative ninety people percent smart stuff talking until
Ninety percent of the research comes first. I mostly blunder around reading stuff and talking to smart people until an idea batters or oozes its way through to my narrative brain.
becomes common enters term
When the term 'machine gun' enters common parlance, the word 'machine' becomes much more sinister.
chapters pictures wrote
When I finish a first draft, I often look back at first chapters I wrote and laugh at them. They're like pictures of yourself in middle school. You're embarrassed to see them.