![]() But, she says, for a long time, publishers’ feedback on her early work puzzled her: “It was honestly a criticism I didn’t totally understand.” Nothing in her background, she said, had prepared her to wield the mechanics of story. ![]() ![]() Oliver is the daughter of English professors, and she’d attended the MFA program in creative writing at New York University. “I kept getting the same feedback,” she said, “which was the writing was very good and the characters were great, but there was no story whatsoever.” Talking about that early work, she is her own toughest critic: she calls the manuscripts “long” and “plotless”. In fact, when she started out she wrote more than one novel for adults that she simply couldn’t sell to publishers. ![]() L auren Oliver, a bestselling young adult writer whose latest book, Vanishing Girls, was published in the US last week, did not set out to write for teenagers – not originally. ![]()
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