#WritersCoffeeClub Oct 21: "If you write adult fiction, would you consider children's stories and vice versa?"
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#WritersCoffeeClub Oct 21: "If you write adult fiction, would you consider children's stories and vice versa?"
I wouldn't know how to do children's stories. As a child my books were all whatever the adults left lying around. Certainly there was little in John Updike or Hunter S. Thompson for a young person to latch on to, but Kurt Vonnegut and others spoke to me and still do.
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@troublewithwords I find this modern concept of "YA" books to be weird. We used to just call them 'books' You had 'children's books, which were pretty clearly aimed at pre-readers and beginning readers, and then there was… everything else.
Clearly, there's a marketing push there, and YA books all seem to be around the same thing (fiction, 'strong young woman/teen girl' protagonist). I wonder though, if it's ultimately a disservice to the reader to put them into a box of "age acceptability".
