Parents... · 10:24pm May 21st, 2017
Writers of children’s adventure fiction know very well that parents are a problem. They just get in the way and interfere with the thrilling adventures you want to send your character on. Successful writers have found effective ways to deal with this problem, such as: sending your character off to boarding school (Enid Blyton); killing the parents off in chapter one (Roald Dahl); or (to be doubly safe) both sending the character to boarding school and killing off their parents (J.K. Rowling)…