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YA & The Immortal Protagonist
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YA & The Immortal Protagonist

By Maren True June 27, 2018 December 7, 2019  Genre, Plot Issue, Wish Fulfillment, YA

Does A YA Protagonist Have To Be A Teen? Are there exceptions? What about the immortal protagonist? I’ve mentioned this topic in passing in other posts—but it’s the current thorn under my skin so I figured it deserves its own article to mull over. One of the key attributes of …

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Teen Entertainment Tastes
Writing Career Planning, Writing Craft

Teen Entertainment Tastes

By Maren True June 25, 2018 December 7, 2019  Genre, Readers, YA

So, recently I got to have dinner with some actual teens to learn more about their tastes in YA books & entertainment. Teen entertainment tastes will have significant bearing on the success of my writing. I only realized in the last few months that my books would be categorized as …

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Parent Trap YA
Writing Career Planning, Writing Craft

Parent Trap YA

By Maren True June 24, 2018 December 7, 2019  Genre, Wish Fulfillment, YA

Once upon a time adults didn’t read children’s books—well, except to their children, of course, when the children were small and you hoped for them to become readers one day. My mother read me children’s books- The Secret Garden, Little House on the Prairie, A Girl of the Limberlost. She …

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YA? Why Not?
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YA? Why Not?

By Maren True May 16, 2018 December 7, 2019  Career Planning, Genre, YA

That is the question… Or at least the one that suddenly occurred to me to wrestle with. I’d been watching a YouTube recording of one of Brandon Sanderson’s lectures on writing at BYU that focused on genre and parsed out YA (Young Adult) from other writing in a way I …

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