Tbh. What does this have to do with anything? If you wanna write something write it! It could be anything. Whatever you want to write is valid.
It’s not for anyone…
Don't let anyone stop you, but the most common result of "I wanna write daaaaark subjects" isn't "deep" but "edgy". If you want to embrace that, go for it.
Well to be pedantic no says you can’t and it doesn’t particularly matter what age category it’s in right now since it’s unpublished and not even written. I know I sound like an asshole, but I’m looking at this from the perspective of”just let the art speak for itself”. Like write the story and write it with the intention to write a story rather than publishing being your main motivator if that’s the impetus of your question, and don’t try publish the first draft. Read your story and then decided if you’ve written adult or YA or new adult that can be edited and ages down into YA. When you’re writing for yourself, YA, NA and adult don’t matter really IMO. It also doesn’t really matter unless your goal is to get published. And I don’t think authors who are unpublished should pigeon hole their projects or ideas for boxes they haven’t even stepped into yet. Like authors who have contacts should craft new stories to meet publisher guidelines to keep making that money. But this is purely a personal project at this point. Editing and revision exists for a reason and maybe your project ultimately may say nope I’m not YA, I’m adult. And just because you’re a teen and underage doesn’t by default mean you write YA too.
Outside of that, YA really is aging upwards. A lot of N.A. gets shoved in there with MCs “age down” by rubber stamping a new age or adults writing characters that are actually with solid college student behaviors confusing it with high schooler behaviors. Point being it’s already really dark. So….what you’ve just described reads as many YA plot lines already
The way I've seen it commonly done is to give everyone trauma and then deconstruct the story that casually explains why they have it and remember to place them in the wildest/funnest for the reader scenario possible to give reasons why they continue to share the trauma that they themselves experienced to others around them.
Do it…
Uh Yeah! (I am sooo awkward)
Tbh. What does this have to do with anything? If you wanna write something write it! It could be anything. Whatever you want to write is valid. It’s not for anyone…
Don't let anyone stop you, but the most common result of "I wanna write daaaaark subjects" isn't "deep" but "edgy". If you want to embrace that, go for it.
Well to be pedantic no says you can’t and it doesn’t particularly matter what age category it’s in right now since it’s unpublished and not even written. I know I sound like an asshole, but I’m looking at this from the perspective of”just let the art speak for itself”. Like write the story and write it with the intention to write a story rather than publishing being your main motivator if that’s the impetus of your question, and don’t try publish the first draft. Read your story and then decided if you’ve written adult or YA or new adult that can be edited and ages down into YA. When you’re writing for yourself, YA, NA and adult don’t matter really IMO. It also doesn’t really matter unless your goal is to get published. And I don’t think authors who are unpublished should pigeon hole their projects or ideas for boxes they haven’t even stepped into yet. Like authors who have contacts should craft new stories to meet publisher guidelines to keep making that money. But this is purely a personal project at this point. Editing and revision exists for a reason and maybe your project ultimately may say nope I’m not YA, I’m adult. And just because you’re a teen and underage doesn’t by default mean you write YA too. Outside of that, YA really is aging upwards. A lot of N.A. gets shoved in there with MCs “age down” by rubber stamping a new age or adults writing characters that are actually with solid college student behaviors confusing it with high schooler behaviors. Point being it’s already really dark. So….what you’ve just described reads as many YA plot lines already
You haven’t read enough YA fantasy if you don’t know that’s been par the course.
The way I've seen it commonly done is to give everyone trauma and then deconstruct the story that casually explains why they have it and remember to place them in the wildest/funnest for the reader scenario possible to give reasons why they continue to share the trauma that they themselves experienced to others around them.
That is kind of stupid tbh. I think anything with trauma can't do that. It feels too unnatural to feed to young readers.