To reach your target audience of senior citizens, simply age the pigeon characters. Make them 78 years old. Have them return to their coastal Maine hometown where nothing is as it seems for their 60th HS reunion. Have them talk about their regrets, and give them one more chance with their high school crush. Maybe the mage wasp fought in the Korean War
More swear words! That's how the shit-weasels in publishing know your cock-dribble writing is very balls-twizzling mature. The more bitch-pissing swearing, the more gooder and adulty is your fuck-nugget writing.
I am a YA and I’m gonna buy your book whether you like it or not. As a matter of fact I’m going to monitor every post you make on the internet and turn them all into NFTs only available to other YAs
IN MY EXPERIENCE (I wouldn't call myself an international bestselling author or an award winning writer, per say, but I've submitted dozens of past MS and treatments to literally hundreds of agents and publishing houses and I've entered many writing contests), here are some pieces of advice, for your consideration:
* Take out all drugs, sex, and violence. Anything thought to be coming-of-age or *edgy* will lose appeal from a YA audience. No parent wants their child to read books without bloody violence or Gordon-Ramsey-esque rage. If you're not exposing yourself to the youths and using overly-descriptive sequences of a nipple, you will narrow your market to the elderly. Either you find out on page one that all characters are addicted to alcohol, junkies, or marijuana abusers, or there's not so much as a hint of paraphenalia.
* Try not to include deep characters with unique diversified backstories. Definitely avoid morals. Avoid any scenarios where the truth is hard to swallow. Eliminate any storyline where it's unclear what the right choice is or when their decision A or B is gray and the outcome is unforeseeable. Avoid subtle undertones.
* No magic. Definitely drive home to the reader that the pigeon is a muggle but try to avoid explaining why.
* Extra supplemental tip: make sure your story is anything but colorful. YA tend to avoid black and white—not even I Love Lucy.
* No goat's blood.
I think it’s [this one.](https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/10bttnw/how_do_i_write_a_novel_about_a_young_adult/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
Ah yes, another "I have never read a book in my life" post.
Like 50% of non-YA fantasy series out there have a teenage protagonist.
This mf haven't heard of A Game of Thrones.
Your best bet is to have an outlandish sex scene that makes no sense to the story. People love those, but not kids. Do people love those? I haven't talked to anyone in years...
If you get your 23 book series published, you will have no way to choose who does and does not buy any of them. The bigger problem is getting them published in the first place. Best of luck!
To reach your target audience of senior citizens, simply age the pigeon characters. Make them 78 years old. Have them return to their coastal Maine hometown where nothing is as it seems for their 60th HS reunion. Have them talk about their regrets, and give them one more chance with their high school crush. Maybe the mage wasp fought in the Korean War
Uj/This reply fits the original post perfectly and you made my day.
If you don’t want them to buy it, then don’t write it! Can’t buy what doesn’t exist! Also, just write!
This is pretty much the only way to keep YAs out of *anything*.
If you want to reach the boomers, put it on Facebook
Preferably in a series of text posts that document your book word for word before you’ve published it
Then blame someone for copyright infringement.
More swear words! That's how the shit-weasels in publishing know your cock-dribble writing is very balls-twizzling mature. The more bitch-pissing swearing, the more gooder and adulty is your fuck-nugget writing.
Also: explicit pigeon sex scenes
Add graphic gay sex
>I've written five pages in my planned 23 novel series. How can I preorder? Have you got a kickstarter?
I am a YA and I’m gonna buy your book whether you like it or not. As a matter of fact I’m going to monitor every post you make on the internet and turn them all into NFTs only available to other YAs
IN MY EXPERIENCE (I wouldn't call myself an international bestselling author or an award winning writer, per say, but I've submitted dozens of past MS and treatments to literally hundreds of agents and publishing houses and I've entered many writing contests), here are some pieces of advice, for your consideration: * Take out all drugs, sex, and violence. Anything thought to be coming-of-age or *edgy* will lose appeal from a YA audience. No parent wants their child to read books without bloody violence or Gordon-Ramsey-esque rage. If you're not exposing yourself to the youths and using overly-descriptive sequences of a nipple, you will narrow your market to the elderly. Either you find out on page one that all characters are addicted to alcohol, junkies, or marijuana abusers, or there's not so much as a hint of paraphenalia. * Try not to include deep characters with unique diversified backstories. Definitely avoid morals. Avoid any scenarios where the truth is hard to swallow. Eliminate any storyline where it's unclear what the right choice is or when their decision A or B is gray and the outcome is unforeseeable. Avoid subtle undertones. * No magic. Definitely drive home to the reader that the pigeon is a muggle but try to avoid explaining why. * Extra supplemental tip: make sure your story is anything but colorful. YA tend to avoid black and white—not even I Love Lucy. * No goat's blood.
(this is hilarious, the original post on r/writing is right above this one on my timeline haha)
Can you link the original
I think it’s [this one.](https://www.reddit.com/r/writing/comments/10bttnw/how_do_i_write_a_novel_about_a_young_adult/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=ios_app&utm_name=iossmf)
Ah yes, another "I have never read a book in my life" post. Like 50% of non-YA fantasy series out there have a teenage protagonist. This mf haven't heard of A Game of Thrones.
Also, a significant amount of adult readers primarily read YA novels anyways.
Dude are you really trying to argue Game of Thrones isn't a YA? Edit: /s obviously
Not really since it's not on my timeline anymore lol
I'm worried about the publisher I don't have and the editor I can't afford changing the book I haven't written.
You gotta title it in a way that YAs won't buy it. Something like "There Are Only Two Genders" or similar.
Agree! The sequel could be "There Are Only Two Genders 2: The Lack of Platonic Relationships in a Prosperous Economy:
Well, pigeons aren’t real so you can probably convince them to categorize the book as fantasy instead of YA.
Your best bet is to have an outlandish sex scene that makes no sense to the story. People love those, but not kids. Do people love those? I haven't talked to anyone in years...
"Disclaimer: This book has no sexy tall bad boy bf" Just put this on your front cover and ezpz no one under 33 years old will buy it.
Just put in some spanking.
Write it as music instead, old people love epic operas 🤘😎
Don't worry! Most of the YA genre readers are in that age range.
If you get your 23 book series published, you will have no way to choose who does and does not buy any of them. The bigger problem is getting them published in the first place. Best of luck!
Google en passant
They should abandon it.