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#YA Novels
petrareads · 12 days
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hoolay-boobs · 6 months
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YA novel covers
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normalpeoplethiings · 3 months
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“It was something adults said all the time. “You'll change your mind when you're older. You never know what might happen. You'll feel differently one day.” As if we teenagers knew so little about ourselves that we could wake up one day a completely different person. As if the person we are right now doesn't matter at all.”
- Loveless, Alice Oseman (2020)
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biscuitsandspices · 2 years
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Encouragment for writers that I know seems discouraging at first but I promise it’s motivational-
• Those emotional scenes you’ve planned will never be as good on page as they are in your head. To YOU. Your audience, however, is eating it up. Just because you can’t articulate the emotion of a scene to your satisfaction doesn’t mean it’s not impacting the reader. 
• Sometimes a sentence, a paragraph, or even a whole scene will not be salvagable. Either it wasn’t necessary to the story to begin with, or you can put it to the side and re-write it later, but for now it’s gotta go. It doesn’t make you a bad writer to have to trim, it makes you a good writer to know to trim.
• There are several stories just like yours. And that’s okay, there’s no story in existence of completely original concepts. What makes your story “original” is that it’s yours. No one else can write your story the way you can.
• You have writing weaknesses. Everyone does. But don’t accept your writing weaknesses as unchanging facts about yourself. Don’t be content with being crap at description, dialogue, world building, etc. Writers that are comfortable being crap at things won’t improve, and that’s not you. It’s going to burn, but work that muscle. I promise you’ll like the outcome.
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dduane · 7 months
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“Understand that when you’re competing for the attention of a teen reader, you aren’t competing against games, movies, and social media. A teen reader is reading, just reading differently. Often, they are reading fan fiction—on their phone. They are part of a secret club, finding comfort in characters they already know and scenarios that are reassuring (and yes, maybe titillating, but these are teens we’re talking about). However, there’s something else extremely important to remember about fan fiction: it’s free.
“Maybe part of the decline in YA sales is because books for the average teen are not affordable to the average teen.”
Hmm…
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kennico · 9 months
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miss them
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dlyblkanime · 1 year
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Featuring: -11 full color illustrations -10 in-depth Character Profiles -A world that fuses mythology and world history, where man and Gods have always walked side by side. -Anime tropes such as flashy powerhouse battles, color-coded auras, a mysterious, yet inviting mentor, a military organization that has no problem hiring teenagers, and even a character with animal ears.
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just a reminder that no book/movie series will ever be on the level that the hunger games was. the hunger games was THE blueprint. it paved the way for the entire genre of teen dystopian novels/series. every other YA dystopian series wishes it was what the hunger games was. i could go into heavy detail about this. i can recite the entire movie series and the books from memory.
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rosiesfables · 10 months
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Lucy Gray Baird of District 12 🐍🌈
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xcreepstreetx · 2 months
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It's them
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metalcatholic · 3 months
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watching a video essay on of many shitty dystopian YA series that came out in the 2010s and the creator responds to the fact this dystopian society has its mentally ill and disabled at the fringes of society with what seems like a “how dare the author include this. It’s wrong to treat the mentally ill and disabled as outcasts” sort of attitude. And she informs the listener that there’s “no time to unpack that”.
Is this supposed to be a take? You are surprised that the evil dystopian society is evil and dystopian?
This shouldn’t need unpacking, there’s nothing to unpack. This bit of world building is the equivalent of taking just your wallet, phone, and keys on a transatlantic flight. Dystopian 101 literally.
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normalpeoplethiings · 3 months
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“If I could spend every night of my life eating snacks and watching something silly in a giant bed with one of my best friends, I'd be happy.”
- Loveless, Alice Oseman (2020)
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thefruityaquarius · 3 months
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I need episode 4 of percy jackson to come out already
This series has me in a chokehold
I have adhd you can’t make me wait this long 😭
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cult-of-the-eye · 4 months
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I have a complicated relationship with books. When I was a kid, I devoured them, I wouldn't discriminate, whatever I could get my hands on would be gone within hours. I took pride in my reading and what I gained from it. It was a huge part of my life and personality. And then my mental health started to get real bad. And I got bored and couldn't concentrate for long enough to sit and read a whole book. But mostly I got tired of books where I could guess what was gonna happen. I knew the patterns of ya fantasy or romance or dystopia or those new mental health books that made metaphors out of like a repeated motif of toast or whatever. I could always guess the ending and it left a bland taste in my mouth. I didn't want escapism anymore, I just wanted something new. I wanted characters I could relate to. I wanted nuance in a way that didn't feel performative. And now I'm neck deep in tma and I'm getting back into reading, trying to find books with queer poc, trying to read new genres (im getting more into horror), trying to read books with characters who feel real. And honestly tma played a huge role in getting me back into reading. The characters are what made me stick with it. I could talk forever and ever about how much I love when a story focuses on how a character changes within the plot, how they react to things, how they interact with others, how that is compared to other characters. I love reading about trauma responses and unreliable narrators and people making the best choices they can with the resources they have and royally fucking up and falling in love and hating themself and hating other characters and falling apart and bringing themself back together and positive character development and negative character development. That's the shit that gets me going. The fact that tma did all of that? Makes me feel like a kid again, flipping through the same Scooby Doo annual over and over.
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