I too hate movies. I have a long list of movies I pretend to have seen just so no one will make me watch them. I have to research this shit so I can talk convincingly like someone who gives a fuck about, e.g., dudes getting one taste of power and immediately becoming evil, or underdogs bootstrapping their way to victory, or Avengers other than Thor, because otherwise people will yell at me that I have to watch it and then expect me to have feelings about it afterward. and the research is less burdensome. NOT THAT I'M BITTER
The YA thing is interesting too - as you know, I've got an MS I'm shopping around now. I don't consider it YA myself, it's just a fantasy novel where the protag happens to be a teen girl. I wasn't writing it with a young audience in mind; I was writing what I thought would be fun. So I just describe it as "fantasy" and mention offhand that the main character is 17, and don't say anything about age group either way (WHEN THEY LET ME. Sometimes that is compulsory in agent submission templates, blarg). But at the same time I err on the side of not submitting to agencies who don't represent YA, because what if it gets shoved into that bin anyway because Teen Girl? I've seen Naomi Novik's fairy tale stuff shelved as YA because Teen Girl, for instance, which feels like nonsense to me, but then again what do I know about marketing categories. Anyway I'll be curious to see if this splitting of the market goes anywhere
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Date: 2019-03-12 09:30 pm (UTC)The YA thing is interesting too - as you know, I've got an MS I'm shopping around now. I don't consider it YA myself, it's just a fantasy novel where the protag happens to be a teen girl. I wasn't writing it with a young audience in mind; I was writing what I thought would be fun. So I just describe it as "fantasy" and mention offhand that the main character is 17, and don't say anything about age group either way (WHEN THEY LET ME. Sometimes that is compulsory in agent submission templates, blarg). But at the same time I err on the side of not submitting to agencies who don't represent YA, because what if it gets shoved into that bin anyway because Teen Girl? I've seen Naomi Novik's fairy tale stuff shelved as YA because Teen Girl, for instance, which feels like nonsense to me, but then again what do I know about marketing categories. Anyway I'll be curious to see if this splitting of the market goes anywhere