What do you do when you take the OC Transpo bus? Do you read memos from work? Come up with ideas for your hobby? Compose music, write poems, draw pictures?
Well, according to Lauren Oliver, the popular author of young adult novels, she wrote her first book Before I Fall on her Blackberry while travelling on the subway.
“When I was writing Before I Fall, I had a full-time job, a part-time job, and I was also a full-time graduate student of creative writing,” she revealed in an interview published online. “The only writing time I could wrangle was on the subway during my commute to and from commitments, and so I learned to type on my Blackberry; then I would email passages to myself and cut and paste them into a word document.”
Talk about being efficient! Now a New York Times-best selling author, the U.S. writer is coming to Ottawa as part of the Ottawa Public Library’s Teen Author Fest. Oliver will be speaking at Ben Franklin Place, Chamber Room (101 Centrepointe Dr.) on Monday, November 18, starting at 7 pm.
She will be discussing Requiem, the finale to her popular Delirium trilogy, as well as giving a sneak preview to her novel Panic, which is scheduled to be released in 2014 and has already been picked up by Universal Pictures for a possible movie.
If you are a fan of Oliver’s work, or enjoy a good YA novel, then this event is one that you should not miss.
