Hi everyone! My name is Jaime. I'm so happy I found this forum, I know you will all be invaluable as I fall more seriously into writing.
I am a recent college graduate, currently writing a dystopian YA novel while I sit around being unemployed.
Since I've been lurking on a lot of the YA and SYW YA threads, I have come to realize my novel doesn't have a distinctively YA voice at all. It's more adult, I feel, and now I'm kind of depressed. I am going to be delusional while I finish it and pretend that it's unique but AWESOME, AND MUCH NEEDED in the YA world, rather than that it's just written all wrong for a YA audience. Probably I am just not in touch enough with teenagers, but whatever.
Anyway, I know the lines can be blurred, and that I could be writing an adult book with teen protagonists, and I'm not asking anyone to try to divine the genre of my book. I'm just complaining.
I'm excited to find someone via this forum who will be a writing friend/reader. None of my friends read YA books, and I feel like they won't be able to accurately judge how wrong (or right) my book is in comparison, when I go attempt to sell it.
So thanks for reading, and existing, and hi!
I am a recent college graduate, currently writing a dystopian YA novel while I sit around being unemployed.
Since I've been lurking on a lot of the YA and SYW YA threads, I have come to realize my novel doesn't have a distinctively YA voice at all. It's more adult, I feel, and now I'm kind of depressed. I am going to be delusional while I finish it and pretend that it's unique but AWESOME, AND MUCH NEEDED in the YA world, rather than that it's just written all wrong for a YA audience. Probably I am just not in touch enough with teenagers, but whatever.
Anyway, I know the lines can be blurred, and that I could be writing an adult book with teen protagonists, and I'm not asking anyone to try to divine the genre of my book. I'm just complaining.
I'm excited to find someone via this forum who will be a writing friend/reader. None of my friends read YA books, and I feel like they won't be able to accurately judge how wrong (or right) my book is in comparison, when I go attempt to sell it.
So thanks for reading, and existing, and hi!
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