Interesting essay. I admit that I used to be cynical about adults reading YA (thinking that they did it mostly bc they didn't want to be challenged by more complicated fiction), but a few twitter peeps argued otherwise - as does this essay.
h/t @JohnBarnesSFhttps://twitter.com/DeborahJRoss/status/1056605278253277184 …
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3/ ...and, to be clear, I'm not saying "Gosh, I don't know if my galaxy brain could write something so simplistic." Simple and good is harder than complex and good! I can dazzle, to some degree, by having lots of overlapping plots, etc. Harder to do one thing simply & well.
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That is exactly why imo Scalzi is going to fail when he publishes his YA novels bc he is man.
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Why is a book considered a middle grade or YA just bc the age of the main character? Just look at Ender's Game, its a book for all stages of live.
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What is so great about Ender's Game is that its both simple and complex at the same time.
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Don't simplify. Please. An if you haven't, read Susan Cooper's "The Dark Is Rising" series, anything by Wynne Jones, anything by William Sleator(pre 90s) all the Lloyd Alexander books... I can keep going. None were simplified.
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All excellent examples. Add in Robert Cormier, Laurie Halse Anderson, and Nancy Farmer. Real novels, just short and with a young protagonist and/or POV character
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