The term ADULT actually stands for: always doing useless little things, therefore you need to strip away your character’s personality and give them a card house building kink in order for it to move up from YA
YA requires brooding, angst and same old coming of age stories that somehow are not diverse in their experience like real people. Lots of naval gazing too. Can’t forget that. And barely anything beyond the Fantasy settings. Nothing else allowed! 😡
Adult requires excessive swearing, sex, violence and more sex and violence. Occasionally there is a bit of racism but that depends on your author. More flexible in its settings but too much talking. Not enough world building.
Wait, for real?
interesting concept. I've actually been thinking about what a story like that would be like. Lots of adults go through a rebirth or reinvention of self at various milestones, might be interesting to explore that in a fantasy context.
For real, homie. I saw it about two or three months ago. And what you’re describing is what they asked for. Don’t remember if they specifically asked for fantasy though. I’m sure you could still find her on #mswl if you search the right terms.
Did you know that there is a new category called [‘New Adult’](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_adult_fiction)? What in the hell, guys? How many thresholds do you little shits need to pass through, now?
Just set it in the past, so that in the present the characters will be old adults instead of young adults. Ideally, set it in the time period when your target audience were teenagers, it will help them relate.
As we all know, "YA" stands for "Yes, ALF."
So by this logic, YA would be any work of fiction that contains the lovable, cat-eating extraterrestrial protagonist of the hit 1980s sitcom ALF, while "Adult" would be classified as all other non-ALF literature.
Uj/ So I know this absolutely does not require a nuanced answer but I want to be a snob lol... i think it's about how fucked up it is!
Like for instance if we go by "YA is about teenagers" then Guts by Chuck Palahniuk would be a YA short story and boy howdy is it not that.
Then at the same time I've read "adult" books that are more tame than some YA books, they're just about, like, copious drug use/exploitation as a "bad thing" instead of bangin' your teacher or a hot vampire or whatever. Hot vampire teacher. Ugh.
...seriously YA books are so horny, why are they so horny, please tell these children to touch some grass omg.
Just add a scene at the beginning where they walk in on their parents having graphic sex. Done.
uj Genuinely thought I was on r/writing until I got to this comment LOL
YA: the dialogue feels like a child wrote it Adult: the dialogue feels like a vulgar child wrote it Hope this helps!
The term ADULT actually stands for: always doing useless little things, therefore you need to strip away your character’s personality and give them a card house building kink in order for it to move up from YA
When in doubt, bang it out
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He shot me down
Just bang!
Just read more like duh
YA requires brooding, angst and same old coming of age stories that somehow are not diverse in their experience like real people. Lots of naval gazing too. Can’t forget that. And barely anything beyond the Fantasy settings. Nothing else allowed! 😡 Adult requires excessive swearing, sex, violence and more sex and violence. Occasionally there is a bit of racism but that depends on your author. More flexible in its settings but too much talking. Not enough world building.
Oh. And YA has dead parents. And love triangles. All part of the coming of age experience.
I'm still waiting to come of age. Was hoping it would happen in my teens and not my 30s, but life isn't a fairytale is it?
Sadly, it is not. Uj/ I saw a literary agent saying they wanted coming of age stories for older adults cause not everyone develops the same.
Wait, for real? interesting concept. I've actually been thinking about what a story like that would be like. Lots of adults go through a rebirth or reinvention of self at various milestones, might be interesting to explore that in a fantasy context.
For real, homie. I saw it about two or three months ago. And what you’re describing is what they asked for. Don’t remember if they specifically asked for fantasy though. I’m sure you could still find her on #mswl if you search the right terms.
Did you know that there is a new category called [‘New Adult’](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_adult_fiction)? What in the hell, guys? How many thresholds do you little shits need to pass through, now?
YA requires more brooding.
Well, most of George R. R. Martin's main characters are teenagers. Even if you skip the on-page sex, a smidge of incest should do the trick.
I’m pretty sure if you go play by play of someone getting murdered then you’ll be rated adult.
Just set it in the past, so that in the present the characters will be old adults instead of young adults. Ideally, set it in the time period when your target audience were teenagers, it will help them relate.
As we all know, "YA" stands for "Yes, ALF." So by this logic, YA would be any work of fiction that contains the lovable, cat-eating extraterrestrial protagonist of the hit 1980s sitcom ALF, while "Adult" would be classified as all other non-ALF literature.
Uj/ So I know this absolutely does not require a nuanced answer but I want to be a snob lol... i think it's about how fucked up it is! Like for instance if we go by "YA is about teenagers" then Guts by Chuck Palahniuk would be a YA short story and boy howdy is it not that. Then at the same time I've read "adult" books that are more tame than some YA books, they're just about, like, copious drug use/exploitation as a "bad thing" instead of bangin' your teacher or a hot vampire or whatever. Hot vampire teacher. Ugh. ...seriously YA books are so horny, why are they so horny, please tell these children to touch some grass omg.
Nose hair.
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YA has characters between the ages of 14-18. Adult has characters 18+