We all know that YA novels are mostly trash, but the money seems good. What kind of skills would i need to write something like pic related? Even mediocre YA stuff seems to have a zoomer fanbase.
Have you ever tried to write YA slop?
We all know that YA novels are mostly trash, but the money seems good. What kind of skills would i need to write something like pic related? Even mediocre YA stuff seems to have a zoomer fanbase.
No. Either children's books or adult books. Miss me with that half-assed shit.
I wrote a ya romantasy novel as I genuinely enjoy reading and writing young adult scifi/fantasy/romance. So far only my grandmother has read it.
You have no intention to put your novel out there?
>So far only my grandmother has read it.
She liked it?
Yeah you might want to keep practicing and leave this one for grandma.
Colleen is shit but she's not YA
>Colleen is shit but she's not YA
Wrong.
Two of the people in those pictures look like mid-20s. Only one could pass for late teens. Either way, Colleen Hoover writes books aimed at adults.
Physically? Perchance. Mentally? They're women so 15 at most.
You should learn to stop projecting your level of intelligence onto strangers.
These women just read for gooning purposes. It's literally just porn for women.
Is it possible to write YA but isn't slop? Say I wanted to write YA for cash but also make it full of messages and themes that gets it's reader to think about. That way they aren't mindlessly consuming
I’m planning to do this next year. Write a YA book that’s actually a serious novel. I’ve concluded this is the only way to become a successful author in the 21st century.
It's unfortunate but it seems it's what must be done
I guess RLS’ works could have been considered YA, but I don’t know if kids really read stuff like Treasure Island nowadays
I'm not sure kids these days read anything outside school tbh
The start of Treasure Island is way too difficult to read for its apparent target audience. It gets easier as it goes on but by god the opening chapters are something to get through. I could barely read them as a kid and still struggle with them as an adult.
What makes the beginning difficult?
Gross pig, whomever you happen to be.
I do not know this women, but I can sense that she has a kinder hear than your putrid abomination of one.
So, my "friend," and soon to be dead man.
What exactly, makes this trash?
-Elohim
>Hoover
I'M GONNA HOOOOOVVVVEEEE
*sucks up all the food on the plate in front of me*
Hello, Pig.
You want to roasted and put on a spike on this thread for all to see?
You will blush, in pretentious arrogance, at first, and smirk, a little bit, then gluttonous cum will dribble out of your pathetic fricking jowls...
then, you get skull-fricked, by me, again, and again, and again, for all eternity.
Gross, fat, pig.
-Elohim, the Night Dragon
Writing this kind of shit can´t be THAT hard right?
Post your best, and I'll compare the two.
-Elohim
the newborn son dies in the next chapter
man I don't know fricking anything about YA or social media but I'm sad that there is supposedly some opaque realm of idiot readers completely outside of my vision that I could capitalize on but never will
>What kind of skills would i need to write something like pic related
You need to know how to use a computer and chat gpt.
With the right tools you can even generate several novels a day
If i have to sell my labour for money, it cannot be something so personal as writing. I might as well become a prostitute.
Yes, I am good at it, but it feels soulless compared to writing for children or adults. Children's writing can be far more lucrative (Mo Willems, Dav Pilkey and Jeff Kinney all being modern day success stories).
>What kind of skills would i need to write
Next to none, you just have to properly market it to your audience and they will do the heavy lifting for you, convincing others their age it's actually mature, profound, relatable and not make-believe trash or Reddit slop.
Just think about something like crime and Punishment. Have AI write the story of your regular dindu doing his regular sheeeit but employ anthropomorphism to magically invest him with rationality and deep introspection, throw in his long estranged used-up baby momma at the end and some sudden acceptance for repentance. Bonus points for the evil, colonial, Nazi, Fascist poh-lice officer who breathtakingly cuts his story short right on his way to church.
They'll love it, they'll think is so much better than your regular romance novel and they'll make up all sorts of stories and hypothesis on how it's akshually about poverty, socio-economic factors, how they too and everyone else could very well find themselves in an identical situation because of society, maybe even develop a gambling addiction, gay rape the younglings to discipline them, so on.
If you're clever about it, you can also claim it was written in a foreign language and to whoever might complain simply respond that it's just a bad translation.
Bukowski would be rolling in his grave if he read this hahaha
No.
What is YA? I've always assumed it was a classification of a work's complexity or "reading level" rather than a genre, but it seems that people treat it as a genre unto itself now. What the hell makes a work of YA identifiably YA rather than something else? Is it just a marketing gimmick that people have grown attached to?
YA is oversatured and its gatekept by women.
>5th grade reading level
>no swears
>no sex
>main character is 17 years old or younger
>us vs them / babby's 1st foray into politics motif
>appeals to female readers primarily
wait....is blood meridian YA?
I cant write YA. It's like forcing yourself to stick your hand in boiling water. While reading your draft every writerly instict is telling you to stop. Make the characters more interesting, polish up the prose, stop being so predictable.
You guys really need to get on the "Dark Romance" train. That is where the big bucks are, they are also the most brutal blackpill on female desire.
Also, if you are going to write this shit a good rule of thumb is "Tags over Genre". By this I mean tags like you would find on a porn/hentai site. This porn for women, as much as they deny it, and it is categorized exactly the same way. Don't think "how do I write romance" you need to think "how do I write a #werewolf #noncon #enemiestolovers #mafia #billionair" book or whatever set of tags you choose. The whole thing is entirely modular and built off of tags and tropes, don't miss the trees for the forest so to speak.
If you have active brain cells, you can write this stuff easily. These people ignore the part of their brains that tell them something is shit. That is how they write, or are so blissfully unaware like Brandon Sanderson.
Oversaturated market. Going into it with the goal of making money is the same idea women have when joining onlyfans. Or men have when gambling with crypto. Just stick to making something meaningful and original and you could potentially actually make a living off of it