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What compels anyone over the age of 18 to write Young Adult fiction?

>> No.16020263

>>16020255
Money

>> No.16020266

>>16020255
Cunny

>> No.16020273

1. it sells
2. why not? why do people make stupid sitcoms?

>> No.16020329

>>16020255
Why do you care and why does it affect you so negatively? Oh you're a faggy time frog poster

>> No.16020348

>>16020255
obviously money. the real question is why does anyone over the age of 15 read it?

>> No.16020359

>>16020255
Money

The question you are probably seeking, OP, is "What compels anyone over the age of 18 to READ young adult fiction?"

The answer is that those who read YA fiction have the brains of someone younger than 18.

>> No.16022070

Cunny

>> No.16023983

>>16020255

The potential for fame and monetary success while not having to rise above mediocrity

>> No.16023992

Cartoons are also created by adults

>> No.16023997

Caring for the next generation is the responsibility of all adults.

>> No.16024068

>>16020255
Let's ask ourselves a question, let's be real fucking honest. Every /lit/ ideal of heavy prose, deep and philosophical plots, unless it's destined to be an american classic, is going at the MOST be published by some hipster boutique outlet that makes you 3000 dollars over its lifetime. Or, conversely, if you're an author with real talent but know, and want to make a living off of writing, you write YA, simple lines with a story that sells -> you will sell well.

>> No.16024072

>>16023983
Let's be honest, you couldn't write a well selling YA novel if you tried your hardest. If it was that easy, you'd have some published using a pen name, taking in tens of thousands a month to fund your "deep and complex" pieces.

>> No.16024076

Cunny

>> No.16024091

>>16020255
If you find a winning formula you stand to make a ton of money for relatively little work. Just look at R.L Stine. The guy found a winning formula with horror targeted towards elementary school kids and made bank off of books he probably spent a week writing a piece. Hell, Eragon is just A New Hope+The Empire Strikes back in a janky middle earth. The plots are so similar that I could describe it and you wouldn't be able to discern which one I'm talking about

>> No.16024104

>>16020359
At its best Hunger Games was like any other good thriller. It's really not that far away from other popular stuff by Dan Brown, John Grisham etc. The problem is not reading YA fiction. It's reading YA fiction exclusively.

>> No.16024123

>>16024104
This sub really loves to criticize people for reading certain things when they spend a sizable amount of their day reading posts on a mongolian condor hunting forum. I might not have good things to say about an adult who has entire bookshelves filled with books marketed towards 12 year olds, but there really isn't anything wrong with indulging in a fun, bad book every now and then. It's like watching any of the marvel movies; you know they're not good, but they're a very entertaining couple of hours

>> No.16024159

>>16024123
The /lit/ type is really easy to find if you've ever been in a creative writing community College class.

>> No.16024205

>>16020255
they're doing their best to write adult fiction but the publisher decides to sell it as YA.

actually wonder how often that happens

>> No.16024212

>>16024159
>creative writing community College class
worst experience of my life desu. the teacher made us write a listicle and do visual art.

>> No.16024216

>>16024123
>This sub
do you guys do this ironically or something

>> No.16024233

>>16020255
contrary to other posters i dont think it's for money
i think a lot of writers genuinely enjoy that type of fiction
it allows you to incorporate semi-adult themes (romance, death, luke-warm political values) without being too nitty gritty, without having to know any practical knowledge, simultaneously allowing you to indulge in your favorite fantasies (a strange world with sci-fi technology but people are dressed in final fantasy clothes and have anime eyes)

>> No.16024238

>>16024233
additionally i don't think people really write with "young adult" in mind, it's just an extremely broad market.

>> No.16024244

>>16020255
Money

>> No.16024425

>>16020255
It's a lot easier to write the pretentious mouth garbage that permeates /lit/ than to actually complete a project with a story that starts at exposition and ends 300 pages later in resolution.

>> No.16024535

>>16024216
Wait, this isn't reddit? I've been misled this entire time

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>>16024123
>this sub
its too late isn't it?

>> No.16025193

Dollars and teenage twat

>> No.16025403

>>16020255
Money
But a lot of them are probably written to be real, unironic literary masterpieces and are classified as YA once an agent gets a hold of it

>> No.16025511

If the heroes of your tale are adults, it does not mean that it is mature.

>> No.16025543

>>16020654

>> No.16025560

>>16024205
Not very often because YA is heavily reliant on specific tropes and on cashing in on what is currently popular.

>> No.16025662

>>16020255
It's one of the most defining periods in someone's life and has in-built character development. And depending on age of protagonists, one has gimmicks like school and parents to create easy tension but keeping the consequences somewhat limited.

Someone going against the status quo in an adult novel is going to end up dead, in jail or on the run. Someone doing it in YA can have tons of smaller setbacks that aren't story ending.

I'm more curious how people can write about some middle aged fag/writer/detective going through a divorce after his third wife cucked him with the first. The average adult feels like a finished story from the first page since the characters are just too set in their own ways or make a corny 180.

>> No.16025677

>>16024212
That sounds just horrible. Man did I love shitposting at the age of 11 in sped on my writing assignments.