{"id":10326,"date":"2019-04-13T10:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-04-13T15:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=10326"},"modified":"2019-04-10T08:42:40","modified_gmt":"2019-04-10T13:42:40","slug":"l-laila-and-her-lingering-final-draft-worries-by-riley-redgate-ya-book-review","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/?p=10326","title":{"rendered":"L = Laila and her lingering FINAL DRAFT worries, by Riley Redgate (YA book review)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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“So talented!”
“Derivative and unimaginative.”
Did both read the same short story?!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Mr. Madison has told Laila all through high school to be proud of her writing style, but now a renowned novelist substitute teaching that creative writing class says the New York City teen’s work is more sci-fi fanfic<\/a> than true storytelling. Ouch.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Urged by Nazarenko to get out of her comfort zone, Laila timidly goes to a club with her friends for the first time, meets lovely Hannah, and tries flirting, kissing, escaping her Ecuadorian father’s curfew demands.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Laila’s admission to Bowdoin’s prestigious writing program hinges on this final creative writing grade. May inspiration from Hannah and the city night sky be enough!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

When have you decided to move from draft to publicly seen work?
**kmm<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Book info<\/strong>: Final Draft \/ Riley Redgate. Amulet Books, 2018. [author site<\/a>] [publisher site<\/a>] Review copy and cover image courtesy of the publisher.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“So talented!”“Derivative and unimaginative.”Did both read the same short story?! Mr. Madison has told Laila all through high school to be proud of her writing style, but now a renowned novelist substitute teaching that creative writing class says the New York City teen’s work is more sci-fi fanfic than true storytelling. Ouch. Urged by Nazarenko […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":10535,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[237,19],"tags":[10,22,11,5,16,18,40,44,187,39,184,180,186,15,9,21,57,35,3,8,61],"class_list":["post-10326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-diverse-books","category-fiction","tag-a2z","tag-behavior","tag-communication","tag-coping","tag-determination","tag-family","tag-fathers","tag-friendship","tag-lgbtq","tag-love","tag-mothers","tag-movies","tag-new-york","tag-relationships","tag-school","tag-self-image","tag-sisters","tag-surprises","tag-teens","tag-us-author","tag-writing"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/booksyalove.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/04\/Final-Draft.jpg?fit=400%2C604&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10326","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10326"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10326\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10539,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10326\/revisions\/10539"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/booksyalove.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}