The first of your books I read was All The Rage, then The Project, then Sadie, Cracked Up To Be, Some Girls Are, This is Not A Test, Believe Anything, and I'm The Girl. A peculiar order, perhaps, but I was awed by All the Rage and knew I would read all your work. The comment from Emily Slaney is beautifully eloquent and says everything I might have hoped to say. I simply needed to share that your earliest work already had the depth, richness, and honesty upon which you've built all your books. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing this 😁💖 I love learning how stories came to be, and all the little details that entails. It's funny but I never felt that Sadie didn't fit with your other books, they were all the evolution of Courtney Summers to me, which is how it should always be for a writer, right? Every one of your books is a new girl, a new story, another step. They have all always been uncompromising, and complicated, and heartbreaking and empowering.
Also the imagining your work through a tape recorder thing - I totally get that. Someone once taught me that you should always read your work aloud (or listen to it played back) because you can see/hear where it trips a reader up and what works. As well as where you can use words to purposely make them stumble or slow down. Words and how they can be used in writing will always fascinate me.
I probably have more to say, but right now I can't think 😖. Thanks again for being so generous with you time & art 💕
The first of your books I read was All The Rage, then The Project, then Sadie, Cracked Up To Be, Some Girls Are, This is Not A Test, Believe Anything, and I'm The Girl. A peculiar order, perhaps, but I was awed by All the Rage and knew I would read all your work. The comment from Emily Slaney is beautifully eloquent and says everything I might have hoped to say. I simply needed to share that your earliest work already had the depth, richness, and honesty upon which you've built all your books. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing this 😁💖 I love learning how stories came to be, and all the little details that entails. It's funny but I never felt that Sadie didn't fit with your other books, they were all the evolution of Courtney Summers to me, which is how it should always be for a writer, right? Every one of your books is a new girl, a new story, another step. They have all always been uncompromising, and complicated, and heartbreaking and empowering.
Also the imagining your work through a tape recorder thing - I totally get that. Someone once taught me that you should always read your work aloud (or listen to it played back) because you can see/hear where it trips a reader up and what works. As well as where you can use words to purposely make them stumble or slow down. Words and how they can be used in writing will always fascinate me.
I probably have more to say, but right now I can't think 😖. Thanks again for being so generous with you time & art 💕
Loved this book. Powerful stuff. Congratulations.