Hey, guys, jumping over from YA to ask a MG question.
I am writing a novel that I planned to be YA. It is about a dreamy, insomniac girl, whose family has moved to an inn while her brother recovers from a TBI (traumatic brain injury). While she's there, she looks into a mystery/ghost story.
The plot, as I see it at the moment, and the character seem a little younger to me, maybe 14ish, but I haven't assigned her an age in the story yet. There's no romance in the book, but there may be one tiny kiss between her and a boy she makes friends with there.
I usually read YA, not MG, and I know the "read MG" advice that's coming. So here's my question.
Two people who have read an excerpt from it say that the language might be too old for MG, while another says it's completely okay. Some of my Friday Night Writes comments have been "very literary" and "nice flowing descriptions," comments I've never had on anything before. The voice is totally different from anything I've done (I usually have a girl attituding all over the place). I lost the attitude for this girl, and her POV is pretty stream-of-consciousness. Because of her brother, she's constantly thinking things about the brain--talking about synapses, for example.
I'm not sure how literary this is, because I wouldn't know literary if it bit me on the butt, but comments make me think it's headed that way. Are there literary MGs, or something that flows like this (this includes any recommendations if you guys have some)? Do you think MG readers would be turned off by this use of language?
(An excerpt, if you want an example, can be found here. http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4334665#post4334665 There are at least two others in that thread afterwards)
I am writing a novel that I planned to be YA. It is about a dreamy, insomniac girl, whose family has moved to an inn while her brother recovers from a TBI (traumatic brain injury). While she's there, she looks into a mystery/ghost story.
The plot, as I see it at the moment, and the character seem a little younger to me, maybe 14ish, but I haven't assigned her an age in the story yet. There's no romance in the book, but there may be one tiny kiss between her and a boy she makes friends with there.
I usually read YA, not MG, and I know the "read MG" advice that's coming. So here's my question.
Two people who have read an excerpt from it say that the language might be too old for MG, while another says it's completely okay. Some of my Friday Night Writes comments have been "very literary" and "nice flowing descriptions," comments I've never had on anything before. The voice is totally different from anything I've done (I usually have a girl attituding all over the place). I lost the attitude for this girl, and her POV is pretty stream-of-consciousness. Because of her brother, she's constantly thinking things about the brain--talking about synapses, for example.
I'm not sure how literary this is, because I wouldn't know literary if it bit me on the butt, but comments make me think it's headed that way. Are there literary MGs, or something that flows like this (this includes any recommendations if you guys have some)? Do you think MG readers would be turned off by this use of language?
(An excerpt, if you want an example, can be found here. http://www.absolutewrite.com/forums/showthread.php?p=4334665#post4334665 There are at least two others in that thread afterwards)
