I have a problem...
I write for teenagers. I live with teenagers. I read YA books.
So naturally.... I talk like a teenager! Does anyone else have this problem? Their YA voice spilling into other things? I answered an email the other day with "I would so totally do that!"
I say "Not!" "Would you chill?" or even "Chillax!" (A combination of relax and chill.) I have used "As if," in a conversation. I have said, "I'm outtie" and "Okay, let's bounce," when I am taking off to go somewhere.
I refer to young love as their crush or they are crushing. Kissing or making out, I call macing (Not sure how it's spelled but it has a short a.)
Isn't there a 12 step program somewhere to help me? I am Forty(mumble mumble)two (mumble mumble) years old... It sounds ridiculous!
Or maybe I am just really immature inside! HA! Maybe when I started writing YA I was just releasing my inner teen.
Peace out!
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I totally do this. My mom was just griping at me the other day. Thanks for the book compliment. I was freaking out wondering if you liked it! :)
I talk like that, but that's just who I am. I'm a 16 year old trapped in a 37 year old's body.
Okay, I don't write YA, but I SO speak like you described...even being known to toss in the term "dude" from time to time. I guess it doesn't help that my office environment is very casual (creative firm), so it fits right in with all of us, regardless of the variety of ages here. Oh, well, we're only as old as we feel...and act...and speak, right? ;-)
Christina
I do it. "totally" and "dude" are my favorite words. And if I can get them in a sentence TOGETHER...
Me too. You're not alone. I often throw in a "loser" and "what-evah" from time to time as well. My good friend, Intrigue writer Alice Sharpe, has taken to making an L on her forehead whenever she sees me because I have now infected her with this weirdness, too. Now if THAT doesn't scream teenie-bopper, I don't know what does. (And I don't even have teenagers in my house!)
There is no 12 step program. We're just SOL. Yes, some of it sounds ridiculous coming out of our mouths, and my students giggle at me from time to time, but it's too late. There's nothing we can do about it. From the sounds of your other responses, it seems we don't have to suffer alone though!
This was so funny. Since I'm writing historical, I refer to macing as snogging, and chillax as "having a cuppa." I'm so not cool.
Hey, as long as you don't say "You Go Girl," it's all good. Actually, I hate it's all good too. Totally.
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