Old People Writing for Teens

And, ooh, the cached page worked for me. Sweeeeet!

LOL And that is a stunning MC.

Didn't work for me either. *sigh*

Anyone care to send me the link?

Chanelle, are you pressing the thing that says "cached" under the google result, or just pressing the link normally? You have to press "cached" or it won't work

Or maybe your internet's just hateful haha.

Oh, okay! Lol. That was fun - I just looked up all the agents who are reading my book.

So it showed you the deals they've made for the writer's they represent?
Did you like what you read?

Mostly, yeah. I feel amazingly privileged to have these agents even CONSIDERING my book. Wow.

Red.Ink.Rain said:

Mostly, yeah. I feel amazingly privileged to have these agents even CONSIDERING my book. Wow.

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Aw. I think it's awesome!

Lol, thanks Indus.

Haha - I wasn't pressing cached. Feels silly now.

Me too, Chan. Lol.

I didn't the first time, then reread what wandergirl had written and realized what I'd done wrong.

You still can't access all of them though. *sigh* I couldn't see the PM profile for one of the agents who seemed really interested. Sadness.

Back from errands -- I'm glad you guys figured it out! haha
I don't know why PM doesn't fix their settings, but for now... good for us.

MISSKRIS IS AN AMAZING BETA!!

So are Kaitlin, whatevergoesnow and Genius by Birth Slacker by Choice Indus

Red, sometimes you can click "Similar Pages" and you'll have a couple options.

Ooh...*goes to click*

LOL you guys....I'm trying to write this really emotional, powerful scene for my MC. I've been working at it for like two hours so I stopped and went back to read.

It's hideous lol I think I just wrote something that could have rivaled an episode of All My Children or something. It is seriously so overly dramatic and absolutely lame lol.
/sigh just had to get that out of my system
ok. Back to the drawing board lol

Indus said:

LOL you guys....I'm trying to write this really emotional, powerful scene for my MC. I've been working at it for like two hours so I stopped and went back to read.

It's hideous lol I think I just wrote something that could have rivaled an episode of All My Children or something. It is seriously so overly dramatic and absolutely lame lol.
/sigh just had to get that out of my system
ok. Back to the drawing board lol

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I bet it's not as bad as you think!

Emotion makes me so uncomfortable (both in life and writing haha) so I always need to take at least a day off from writing after if I try to write a really super emotional scene.

But also, you are your own worst critic

Lol, Indus. Just reading what you wrote made me giggle. I've done that so many times. In a day or two you will probably like the scene again!

Thanks for the endorsement, Wandergirl!!! In big, red letters even. Wow!

Is it a definite red flag if an agent hasn't sold a book for over a year? I know they're legit, it's just been a while it looks like...

I don't think it is. Maybe it means they haven't been taking on new clients? Or maybe the year before they sold three book deals, so they're helping clients with the rest of their series? Meh, I don't know lol.

Red.Ink.Rain said:

Is it a definite red flag if an agent hasn't sold a book for over a year? I know they're legit, it's just been a while it looks like...

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From what I've heard, many deals go unreported. Some agents don't report any at all. So there's probably no reason to worry.

Kris: I woulda made it blink, but I don't know how.

Ah, okay. Thanks, wandergirl!

Man, every time I wake up there's pages to read...

Okay, teens sleeping with older men/women? I'm sorry, but when I think of teens I think "students." I started teaching public school (hs and ms) right out of college. I was 23, my oldest students were 18. And no. No no no.

My district (sadly) had a problem with teachers sleeping with students. It happened several times in the four years I taught there. My students, no matter how cool and mature, were my students. And I still keep in touch with many of them- in fact, one is betaing my book!- but I still think of them as my students.

I question the motives of an older man or woman showing that kinds of interest in a teenager. And I really hope I don't sound like I'm bagging on teens, because some of my former students are the most intelligent, open-minded, aware people I've ever had the pleasure of meeting. Maybe it can work out sometimes...but to me there's definitely something skeevy about it. (Love that word!)

Aaand, on to some exciting news (well, exciting for me, anyway!)...I got my first writing gig!! I'm the intern editorial assistant for http://matadorgoods.com/! I get to help look for travel gear and BOOKS to review (heck yes!), edit articles, and write my own- and I get paid! Paid to write and talk about books and travel? Um...okay!

THANKS TO WANDERGIRL FOR SENDING ME OVER THERE!!!!

As far as men dating younger women goes, my 25-year-old friend married a girl who was nineteen. So I don't think age difference is a problem, it's just the issue of whether or not they're in a student/teacher kind of relationship, or whether the teen is a minor.